Re: To autostart database or not?

Good points.

We have had very few unexpected outages thus far but, with hurricane season fast approaching, I have been rethinking my practices.

Thanks all

--dwayne

Sais, Gene wrote:
> I wrote my own startup scripts that start the databases in background so
> as not to affect the server from coming up. Also, I do a few sanity
> checks like verifying the filesystems exist before starting. It is nice
> to sleep when the Unix Admin needs to reboot the box :).
>
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> Subject: To autostart database or not?
>
>
> We are running a few Oracle9i and 10g databases on RHEL and I have
> always opted NOT to have the databases automatically restart when the
> server goes down due to something unexpected. My thinking was that if
> the server crashed, then I want to be there to bring up the databases to
>
> assess and repair any damage (yes, I am the only production DBA).
>
> Am I being overly controlling? Looking for other opinions and thoughts
> on the matter.
>
> Thanks
>

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