Re: ORA-12560

  • From: Niall Litchfield <niall.litchfield@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Tue, 24 Aug 2004 08:55:57 +0100

On Tue, 24 Aug 2004 11:38:11 +0500, fahd mirza <fahd-m@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi Listers,
>    Its an emergency please. I am experiencing a strange and baffling 
> situation.I am running Oracle 8.1.6 on WIN2K. When in shell, I write svrmgrl, 
> I get an error.
> svrmgrl> ORA-12560-TNS PROTOCOL ADAPTER ERROR

The most likely causes for this in my experience are

1. ORACLE_SID is not set correctly. (Carel said this)
2. The database isn't running! Check first that the db service is
running and secondly the alert.log



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