Thats why I stated to always keep /etc/oratab updated, dbshut and dbstart are based on it. :-) Thanks for sharing your experience. Best regards, Cerri 2007/5/10, Jay.Miller@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <Jay.Miller@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
We used to have our SAs restart using a script until the day the standby database server crashed and they used the regular database startup script to restart it. After that we asked to be called. Jay Miller Sr. Oracle DBA x68355 -----Original Message----- From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Luis Fernando Cerri Sent: Thursday, May 10, 2007 1:54 PM To: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: To autostart database or not? 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
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