do you have an account ops$oracle identified externally? Because THAT is
what the / alone is meant to log you into. So Oracle is doing exactly what
it should.
You aren't..... / as sysdba gets you in so that you can do
startup/shutdown/recovery etc
/ gets you in to use SQL
>From: Charlie Mengler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Subject: Re: svrmgrl, sqlplus question ???
>Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2001 18:10:27 -0800
>
><RANT>
>When I'm logged onto the Unix system as user "oracle"
>using 9i, Oracle refuses to allow me to log into it by
>just using "/". It insists that always include the two
>words " / as sysdba"! Since it precludes me from
>logging into Oracle just using "/", what is gained by
>forcing me to always specify "as sysdba", too????
></RANT>
>
>Rachel Carmichael wrote:
>
> > you cannot format in svrmgrl and you should start learning to use
>sqlplus
> > for this stuff, as svrmgrl goes away in 9i
> >
> > in sqlplus what I do is:
> >
> > sqlplus
> >
> > then at the username prompt I type
> >
> > / as sysdba
> >
> > once you do that you can do startup and shutdown
> >
> > >From: Janet Linsy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > >To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > >Subject: svrmgrl, sqlplus question ???
> > >Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2001 13:21:20 -0800
> > >
> > >Hi all,
> > >
> > >In sqlplus, you can use "col ... format ..." to make
> > >the output pretty. Can we format columns, make title
> > >in svrmgrl?
> > >
> > >Also I read that sqlplus can be used to mount, open
> > >database in 8i, but I don't see how.
> > >
> > >The db is 815 on Sun 5.6.
> > >
> > >Thank you!
> > >
> > >Janet
> > >
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