Re: Database startup verification for Windows Services?

Joop wrote:
> Is there a possibility to have a Windows service startup depend on the
> successful startup of and Oracle database? Using the dependency
> mechanism of Windows services appears like the way to go, but making a
> service depend on the listener service and the database instance
> service does not do the trick, since apparently the listener service
> signals that is 'started' long before it is actually up and running.
>
> We can of course create our own service that does a busy poll on the
> database, but are hoping that this wheel is already invented...

Change the services to MANUAL and start them with a batch file.

For example:
c:\dos> net start oracleserviceorcl

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