Re: To autostart database or not?

  • From: "Luis Fernando Cerri" <lfcerri@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Thu, 10 May 2007 14:53:34 -0300

Why not give the SA the minimum knowledge to use dbshut/dbstart and
always update your /etc/oratab when you create, update or remove an
instance? I've worked this way for years and SAs always did a good
job. Of course I always change the shutdown method to immediate on
dbshut.

If I cannot trust that Oracle do a minimum quality health-check at
startup I should not sleep by other reasons.

Just my thinking.

Best regards,
Cerri





2007/5/10, Mercadante, Thomas F (LABOR) <Thomas.Mercadante@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:

Dwayne,

You are not being over-controlling if you want to be called to come in
every time the server burps.  That is the only issue.

Personally, I do not want to be called.  Let Oracle come up by itself
and only call me if it fails to start.

Tom


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[mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Dwayne Cox
Sent: Thursday, May 10, 2007 8:38 AM
To: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: To autostart database or not?


We are running a few Oracle9i and 10g databases on RHEL and I have
always opted NOT to have the databases automatically restart when the
server goes down due to something unexpected.  My thinking was that if
the server crashed, then I want to be there to bring up the databases to

assess and repair any damage (yes, I am the only production DBA).

Am I being overly controlling?  Looking for other opinions and thoughts
on the matter.

Thanks

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Dwayne Cox, Corporate DBA
Info Tech, Inc.
dwayne.cox@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx

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