Hi Ganesh, I myself hate to restart the server..That was the reason I wanted an alternate solution. Just to doublecheck - If I delete and Recreate that windows service ORACLESERVICE<<DBname>> then would it impact the database at all. Thanks for the quick response. Regds On Mon, 4 Oct 2004 18:54:09 +0100, Ganesh Raja <ganesh.raja@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > What you can do is use the oradim command and delete that Service Key > and Insert a New One.. Maybe if you do that it will sart working. > > [I will not say restart the Box .. I hate that ... Even my Laptop i > tend not to restart it.. There should be a way without restarting > things in Windows !!!!] > > Cheers > Ganesh R > > On Mon, 4 Oct 2004 13:42:12 -0400, Rajesh Puneyani > > > <rajpuneyani@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Hi guys, > > > > Some of our databases are on Oracle 8i/Win 2k. > > > > Recently one of my fellow DBAs tried to restart an Oracle Database > > service (after moving server from one domain to another domain). The > > service got stopped properly but on the way back to start, it failed > > and it is still showing 'RESTARTING' and it is happening for the past > > 24 hours. > > > > The database looks ok but service does not ? How to clean start that > > service ? > > > > Any help would be more than appreciated. > > > > Thanks > > > > > >