Re: ORACLE not available

Often this implies that your server is not active. Check your services in control panel, your server manager and see if instance and service are active.

E.

mgb15041965_at_my-dejanews.com wrote:

> We have been connecting to a new oracle NT server for about 3 months without
> any problems. Now I have tried to connect to the Oracle instance ORCL, but am
>
> getting the following error message:
>
> ERROR: ORA-01034: Oracle not available
> ORA-09243: SMSGET: error attaching to SGA
> OSD-04141: Invalid SGA: SGA not initialised
> O/S-Error: (OS 203) The system could not find environmental option that was
> entered.
>
> Enter username:
>
> I have read some documentation, but this only tells me to contact Oracle
> support to remedy this problem, still waiting for a reply. Has anyone had a
> similar problem, or can anyone explain the cause/solution to this problem?
> Any help would be appreciated.
>
> Thanks,
> Mark Brown
> e-mail: mbrown_at_gwent.nhs.gov.uk
>
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Received on Fri Jul 24 1998 - 06:26:14 CDT