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Please define what you consider a hang.
How long did wait for shutdown immediate?
If there are transactions running, it could take awhile.
10-15 minutes is not all that unusual if there are some long running transactions going on.
-- Jared Still Certifiable Oracle DBA and Part Time Perl Evangelist On 4/27/06, Ahmed Ullah <ahmed107_at_yahoo.com> wrote:Received on Thu Apr 27 2006 - 18:05:57 CDT
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> Hello all:
>
> We have Oracle 9.2.0.5 database ( single Note RAC ). There were some heavy
> batch jobs running which cuased the db hang ( only sys connection was
> working ).
>
> We tried to bring down the database after cleaning all sessions. It did
> not go down with SHUTDOWN IMMEDIATE. We had to abort it. I tried to bring
> down the DB three times with SHUTDOWN IMMEDIATE it never went down.
>
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