On Tue, 24 Aug 2004 15:13:46 +0500, fahd mirza <fahd-m@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Alert log says nothing. > Both listener service and database service have been started with same > account. I am at lost. > regards, > Fahd I'd be logging a Tar as well at this point as a brief search on metalink suggests a number of potential causes for the 12500 as well as those already mentioned. 1. Oracle Trace enabled. 2. Oversizing the SGA and running out of process memory for Oracle.exe 3. misset ORACLE_HOME 4. no permissions on Oracle home for the account that runs the service (normally this would be the local system account on NT. etc etc . -- Niall Litchfield Oracle DBA http://www.niall.litchfield.dial.pipex.com ---------------------------------------------------------------- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com ---------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe send email to: oracle-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx put 'unsubscribe' in the subject line. -- Archives are at //www.freelists.org/archives/oracle-l/ FAQ is at //www.freelists.org/help/fom-serve/cache/1.html -----------------------------------------------------------------