RE: Shutdown Abort

  • From: "Robert Freeman" <robertgfreeman@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <jkstill@xxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Tue, 3 Jul 2007 11:54:12 -0600

Old arguments never die, they just get new proponents...

RF


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  -----Original Message-----
  From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Jared Still
  Sent: Tuesday, July 03, 2007 10:23 AM
  To: randyjo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  Cc: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  Subject: Re: Shutdown Abort


  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.com
from 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

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