Its the old fear of the word "abort". If Oracle had done the right thing from day 1 and named shutdown as "60 minute pause" shutdown immediate as "shutdown slow" shutdown abort as "shutdown fast" well, we all know what everyone would be using=20 :-) On 4/22/05, Jared Still <jkstill@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > When you shutdown abort, Instance Recovery requires > rolling forward through the redo before opening the database. > Rolling back the undo is done in the background. >=20 > You can shutdown abort, startup and logon to the database > faster than you can shutdown immediate, startup and logon > to the database. >=20 > Jared >=20 --=20 Connor McDonald =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D email: connor_mcdonald@xxxxxxxxx web: http://www.oracledba.co.uk -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l