Re: Shutting down a 10g instance

From: Vladimir M. Zakharychev <vladimir.zakharychev_at_gmail.com>
Date: 18 Sep 2006 23:37:17 -0700
Message-ID: <1158647837.190774.251960@b28g2000cwb.googlegroups.com>

dbDummie wrote:
> I'm just beginning to migrate from Oracle 9i to Oracle 10g. I
> installed 10g on a Windows box and created a database.
>
> I went into sqlplus, connected as sysdba and issued a shutdown. The
> database did not shut down. I tried shutdown immediate, it still
> didn't shut down.
>
> It looks as though, if the OracleDBConsole is running, the database
> won't shut down. Is that correct?
>
> What is the "proper" way to shut down a 10g database?
>
> Is it necessary to manually stop the OracleDBConsole first?
>
> Thank you.

Afaik, DB Console shouldn't prevent the instance from shutting down. What's in alert log? When you stopped DB Console - did the instance shut down?

Regards,

Vladimir M. Zakharychev
N-Networks, makers of Dynamic PSP(tm) http://www.dynamicpsp.com Received on Tue Sep 19 2006 - 01:37:17 CDT