On 7/3/07, Randy Johnson <randyjo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
With all due respect this was not a controlled test. So I'd be carefull
not to assume it was caused by the abort.
Exactly.
Please see http://www.speakeasy.org/~jwilton/oracle/shutdown-abort-bad.html
If you are not familiar with Jeremiah Wilton, he was a DBA at
Amazon.comfrom early days.
Amazon has a few databases, and they were/are regularly shutdown with abort.
Jared Still
Certifiable Oracle DBA and Part Time Perl Evangelist