Re: WinNT Does Shutdown Abort during Reboot

From: Sybrand Bakker <postbus_at_sybrandb.demon.nl>
Date: Wed, 7 Nov 2001 07:27:44 +0100
Message-ID: <tuhl91fgsi54ec@corp.supernews.com>

"Alan Rosenthal" <alanhr_at_san.rr.com> wrote in message news:tw3G7.17126$D5.7804624_at_typhoon.san.rr.com...
> Hi,
>
> I just read that when WindowsNT shuts down Oracle will do a SHUTDOWN ABORT
> operation rather than a SHUTDOWN IMMEDIATE. I tested this on an 8.0.5 and
> an 8.1.7 running Win2k and when the instance restarted there was a crash
> recover in the alert log.
>
> How do you change this to a SHUTDOWN IMMEDIATE?
>
> TIA,
>
> Alan
>
>

There should be a registry key ora_<sid>_shutdowntype. It needs to be set to "i" for immediate shutdown. Please check your NT specific docs.

Hth

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Sybrand Bakker
Senior Oracle DBA

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