Yikes! I wouldn't recommend that approach, since it starts out with a SHUTDOWN ABORT. On Thu, Jun 9, 2011 at 14:38, Mir M. Mirhashimali <mhyder@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > try STARTUP FORCE > > > > On 6/9/2011 2:29 PM, Charles Schultz wrote: > >> We had a dba boo-boo today; and now I have a curious issue on my hands. >> MMON and several other background processes are down, but the instance seems >> to have other recovered after an errant shutdown command was cancelled. So >> far Google has not shown me anything helpful. Wondering if there any tricks >> out there. >> >> Oracle Enterprise Edition, 11.1.0.7.7 >> Sun Solaris 10 >> >> -- >> Charles Schultz >> !DSPAM:2052,4df11f7f153741375242980! >> > > -- > //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l > > > -- "I'm too sexy for my code." -Awk Sed Fred