Oracle Post Installation Tasks; Startup And Shutdown Of The Oracle 10G Database; Shutdown Of Other Oracle 10G Background Processes - Red Hat ENTERPRISE LINUX 5.1 - LINUX ORACLE Tuning Manual

Chapter 27.

Oracle Post Installation Tasks

Important
Before you continue, make sure you followed the steps at
the Oracle Universal

27.1. Startup and Shutdown of the Oracle 10g Database

This section contains details on how to start up and shut down your Oracle Database. Note that the
Start the database:
oracle$ sqlplus /nolog
SQL> connect / as sysdba
SQL> startup
Shut down the database:
oracle$ sqlplus /nolog
SQL> connect / as sysdba
SQL> shutdown
The slash connects you to the schema owned by SYS. In the above example you will be connected to
the schema owned by SYS with the privilege SYSDBA. SYSDBA gives you the following privileges:
• sysoper privileges WITH ADMIN OPTION.
• create database.
• recover database until.

27.2. Shutdown of other Oracle 10g Background Processes

If you installed a pre-configured database using OUI, then several Oracle background processes are
now running on your server. Execute the following command to see the background processes:
ps -ef
To shutdown the Oracle background processes after an Oracle Database 10g installation, you can
execute the following commands:
• iSQL*Plus
To stop iSQL*Plus, run:
su - oracle
isqlplusctl stop
• Database Management Processes
During the installation of Oracle 10g, OUI offered two Database Management Options:
Installer".
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