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