"William F. O'Neill" <wfoneill001_at_bellsouth.net> wrote in message
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> David:
> I did what you suggested below using MISC, rather than CONSOL. I set the
> ORACLE_SID=MISC, brought up SQLPLUS, connected, and then did 'startup.' I
> got to Database Mounted, and then the error Ora-01092: Oracle Instance
> Terminated. Disconnection Forced.
> By the way, I can follow directions, if they're not confusing. I said
> right up front that I'm not a DBA. I've been a programmer(Powerbuilder)
> for the past ten years.
> Do you have any further suggestions???
Oracle writes error information to a file called the alert.log. This file
should be called alert_misc.log (or something very similar) and will
probably be located in %ORACLE_BASE%\admin\misc\bdump where %ORACLE_BASE% is
the base Oracle software directory (c:\oracle\, d:\oracle\,
/u01/app/product/oracle something like that). It will likely tell you what
the problem is.
--
Niall Litchfield
Oracle DBA
http://www.niall.litchfield.dial.pipex.com
Received on Tue Mar 15 2005 - 02:22:12 CST
