Re: Oracle screws up Sun host

Rick Denoire wrote:

>
> When I used the "shutdown immediate" last time, the DB was closed,
> there was no activity aside from the remaining ARC processes consuming
> some CPU time. I was sure that nothing was being rolled back.
>

If you have the Intelligent Agent running, that will keep an open connection, preventing the db to shut.
If you have it running, try stopping it, and see what happens.

And shutdown abort is quite safe, as has been discussed recently in this ng - some may have bad experiences, but I think that's coincidence

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Regards, Frank van Bortel