It was revealed today that Oracle will buy Sun Microsystems. The deal is expected to close in the summer. It has come as a joyous moment for the board, directors and all involved with the latest acquisition fiascos. (more…)
No CommentsError “ORA-01033 ORACLE initialization or shutdown in progress” plagued me twice, not a third, unprepared!
Since this was the second time this happened to me so I decided I should get all my ducks in a row cause if it happened twice, it will most likely happen a third time, if not to me, then to someone else.
The reason this happened was because my automated script that restores two databases and does everything to shut down and restart the instance got fowled up. It fowled up when I accidentally ran both scripts simultaneously. The first script did the shutdown operations, and the second script did the same. … which then barfed everything up and locked the files and considered everything in a shutdown state. (more…)
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