Veritas Storage Foundation™ for Oracle 5.0.1 Graphical User Interface Guide

■ Transactional

Use this option to shut down the Oracle database instance immediately

upon completion of all transactions in progress. If you shut down using

this option, no client can start a new transaction on this instance, and a

client is disconnected when the transaction in progress ends. The next

database start up does not require an instance recovery.

■ Immediate

Use this option to shut down the Oracle database instance immediately.

Use this option in situations where the database, or some application, is

running irregularly or a power shutdown is about to occur. If you shut

down using this option, all current client SQL statements are terminated

immediately, any uncommitted transactions are rolled back, and all

connected users are disconnected. Oracle closes and dismounts the

database before shutting down the instance. The next database start up

does not require an instance recovery.

■ Abort

Use this option to shut down the Oracle database instance instantaneously

by aborting the database's instance. Use this option with extreme caution

and only when normal or immediate shutdown does not work, you

experience problems when starting the instance, or you need to shut down

the instance instantaneously. If you shut down using this option, all

connected users are disconnected, current client SQL statements are

terminated immediately, uncommitted transactions are not rolled back,

and the instance is terminated without closing the files. The next database

start up requires an instance recovery.

In this release, the option to shutdown or unmount the FlashSnap clone

database has been removed. Use the Remove Clone Database option to

shutdown or unmount the FlashSnap clone database.

See cloning a database in the Storage Foundation for Oracle Administrator's

Guide.

Click Shutdown instance at the bottom of the screen.

At the confirmation prompt, click Yesto confirm that you want to shut down

the database.

If the database instance was successfully shut down, you will receive a

confirmation message. Click OK to continue.

Managing your database

Shutting down an Oracle database instance