Re: Installing 7.3 on NT

Take another look, those service names aren't right. When you install Oracle on NT you usually get three services, OracleTNSListner and OracleServiceORCL and OracleStartORCL. The first one is for the listener, you normally have just one of those. The second two are for the starter database, SID ORCL. When you create a new instance, using ORADIM73.EXE, it creates two more services OracleService<SID> and OracleStart<SID>, where <SID> is the SID of the instance you're creating. Try ORADIM73 -H from the command line for additional info. The instance runs in OracleService<SID>. OracleStart<SID> is just involved in automatic startup. If the startup properties for these Services are set to automatic, then the instance will start automatically when the system is started.

Robert Nicholson wrote:

> So when I've installed it on NT I have
>
> OracleTNSListenerorcl
> OracleTNSListenerdevl
>
> ie. I'm trying to create an instance called devl with database name develop
>
> ...
>
> ...
>
> What are the ways to bring up an instance?
>
> when I try from the SVRMGR> prompt
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> startup pfile=d:\orant\database\initdevl.ora
>
> it says
>
> ORA-01081: cannot start already-running ORACLE - shut it down first
>
> My initdevl.ora looks correct to me.
>
> if I just type "startup" after connecting internal it brings up the
> ORCL instance
Received on Sun Aug 16 1998 - 10:58:11 CDT