RE: Debate on rc commands Solaris and Oracle

At 08:10 AM 1/30/2003 -0800, Fink, Dan wrote:
>I know I am going to catch major grief for this, but I avoid shutdown abort
>when possible. Shutdown immediate can take some time, as it will do
>transaction rollback in serial (where recovery at startup can do it in
>parallel and as needed). The main reason I avoid it is that there are known
>bugs that will cause the database to be unrecoverable when a shutdown abort
>is done while a kernel transaction is being performed. Granted, I have not
>personally encountered this, and the chances of encountering it are slight,
>but why take the risk?

do this:

alter system checkpoint;

then this:

shutdown abort;

Any risks should be eliminated by these actions.

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