Re: To autostart database or not?

Thats why I stated to always keep /etc/oratab updated, dbshut and dbstart are based on it. :-)

Thanks for sharing your experience.

Best regards,
Cerri

2007/5/10, Jay.Miller_at_tdameritrade.com <Jay.Miller_at_tdameritrade.com>:
> We used to have our SAs restart using a script until the day the standby
> database server crashed and they used the regular database startup
> script to restart it.
>
> After that we asked to be called.
>
>
>
> Jay Miller
> Sr. Oracle DBA
> x68355
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org] On Behalf Of Luis Fernando Cerri
> Sent: Thursday, May 10, 2007 1:54 PM
> To: oracle-l_at_freelists.org
> Subject: Re: To autostart database or not?
>
> Why not give the SA the minimum knowledge to use dbshut/dbstart and
> always update your /etc/oratab when you create, update or remove an
> instance? I've worked this way for years and SAs always did a good
> job. Of course I always change the shutdown method to immediate on
> dbshut.
>
> If I cannot trust that Oracle do a minimum quality health-check at
> startup I should not sleep by other reasons.
>
> Just my thinking.
>
> Best regards,
> Cerri
>
>
>

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