Re: Question on Startup

On 18 Nov 2005 07:55:10 -0800, "amerar_at_iwc.net" <amerar_at_iwc.net> wrote:

>Hi All,
>
>Just trying to find out if anyone has ever had this problem, and what
>the issue was.
>
>We applied the latest patch list night to our 50 servers. This morning
>two of the databases were down.
>
>However, when I logged into SQLPLUS, it said "Connected to an idle
>instance". When I tried to start the database it says "Instance
>already running".
>
>So, I did a shutdown abort and then restarted the instance and all was
>fine.
>
>But, what caused the problem above? Any ideas?
>
>Thanks

Surely you did read the tail of the alert log before posting this, didn't you?
What did it say?
Or did you immediately start typing this?

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Sybrand Bakker, Senior Oracle DBA