RE: Shutdown Abort

From: Robert Freeman <robertgfreeman_at_yahoo.com>
Date: Tue, 3 Jul 2007 11:54:12 -0600
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Old arguments never die, they just get new proponents...

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[mailto:oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org]On Behalf Of Jared Still   Sent: Tuesday, July 03, 2007 10:23 AM
  To: randyjo_at_sbcglobal.net
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  Subject: Re: Shutdown Abort

On 7/3/07, Randy Johnson <randyjo_at_sbcglobal.net> wrote: With all due respect this was not a controlled test. So I'd be carefull not to assume it was caused by the abort.

Exactly.

Please see
http://www.speakeasy.org/~jwilton/oracle/shutdown-abort-bad.html

If you are not familiar with Jeremiah Wilton, he was a DBA at Amazon.com from early days.

Amazon has a few databases, and they were/are regularly shutdown with abort.

Jared Still
Certifiable Oracle DBA and Part Time Perl Evangelist

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