FW: Starting Database from OEM 9.2 gives ORA-12500 Failed to star

  • From: "Niall Litchfield" <niall.litchfield@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Sat, 31 Jan 2004 20:10:28 -0000

Try and get the correct address :( 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Niall Litchfield [mailto:niall.litchfield@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx] 
> Sent: 31 January 2004 16:14
> To: 'ORACLE-L@xxxxxxxxxxx'
> Subject: RE: Starting Database from OEM 9.2 gives ORA-12500 
> Failed to star
> 
> 
> Jacques Kilchoer wrote
> > Are you sure about that?
> > This is the way I thought it worked with Oracle 8.1 and 9.2
> > (I just tried it again today using Oracle 8.1.7 on Windows 2000)
> > 
> > If in the services control panel the database service has
> > Startup Type Automatic, then the registry entry you mention 
> > will have ORA_sid_AUTOSTART TRUE, and when the machine is 
> > rebooted, the service will start up AND the instance will be 
> > started up.
> 
> True by default but this is because of a weakness IMO of the 
> configuration options in the Windows port.   The service and 
> the database are logically distinct, but oradim sets the 
> startup behaviour of both of them to be the same. So if you 
> create a db with oradim -new .... -startmode a both the db 
> and the service are set to autostart. Similarly if you create 
> with oradim -new .. -startmode m both are set to manual 
> start. Probably the easiest way to break the link is to 
> create the db with startmode manual and then modify the 
> startup behaviour of the service in control panel to 
> automatic start, you get an automatically starting service, 
> but a db that is started as per *nix. If you already have a 
> service created then you can use oradim -edit to specify 
> manual startup and then modify the service properties. 
> 
> In my view just as oradim -edit allows you to specify 
> shutmode for the database and shuttype (database and/or 
> service) it should also allow you to specify the startup 
> behaviour of the service and the db seperately. 
> 
> HTH
> 
> Niall 
> 

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