On Fri, 25 Jan 2013 11:36:03 -0500 Jerry Feldman <[email protected]> wrote:
> people prefer to shut down the database. Since the Linux shutdown > command issues a kill -TERM on all processes is it really necessary > to do the Oracle shutdown prior to the Linux shutdown. It's not a preference. It's a requirement. kill -TERM will tell Oracle to shut down but it takes time to clean up. If you halt the system before the cleanup is finished then you will -- not might, will -- end up with a corrupted database. I hope your DBAs are available to fix it when it happens. > I have DBA privs on the database, but our DBAs are in Toronto and they > are no longer allowed to work on servers in the US. ... You're screwed. -- Rich P. _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
