Dominic Cribbin wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I have a question about the DBSHUT command.
>
> I am currently running an oracle database (version 8.1.5) on Sun Solaris box
> using UNIX.
>
> I would like to know what type of Oracle shutdown is "dbshut", is it
> "Normal", "Transactional" or "Abort".
>
> My reason for asking is that I want to write a script to take automated cold
> DB backups and I am unsure whether the dbshut command will shutdown the
> database in "normal" mode or will there be a chance that I could loose any
> uncommitted transactions ???
>
> Regards
>
> Dominic
As delivered, dbshut assumes a "shutdown normal". In the normal world this
is virtually never correct. I recommend that everyone edit dbshut so that
it performs a "shutdown immediate".
Received on Tue Dec 14 1999 - 07:04:12 CST
