Oracle 10r2 windows service db startup

Question

Hi all,
I have a question regarding the windows oracle service that automatically starts the DB.
If I shutdown the DB manually through sqlplus , the service stops.
This being said, I would like to manually be able to shutdown and startup the db outside of the service as when i try this I get an ORA-12514 TNS connot connect to a descriptor...
So basically I would like the service to be up but not automatically start the DB.
Thanks

Answer 1

Johnny,
I am little confused about what services are you talking about, Are you talking about DBConsole or database itself?
Here are the steps to put database in archivelog
Changing the Database Archiving Mode and  following are the steps to archiving mode from NOARCHIVELOG to ARCHIVELOG:
Shut down the database instance.
SQL> create pfile='\location_to_pfile\init.ora' from spfile;
SQL> SHUTDOWN IMMEDIATE;
Edit the above initialization parameter file to include the initialization parameters that specify the destinations for the archive log files (Just use same format as other parameter)
LOG_ARCHIVE_DEST_1 = 'LOCATION = /location_to_archivelogs/'
log_archive_format =ARC%S_%R.%T
Example from working pfile
*.log_archive_dest_1='LOCATION=C:/u01/oradata/ArchiveLogs'
*.log_archive_format='ARC%S_%R.%T
Start then instance and mount, but do not open, the database using newly created pfile
SQL> STARTUP MOUNT PFILE='/location_to_pfile/init.ora';
To enable or disable archiving, the database must be mounted but not open.
Change the database archiving mode. Then open the database for normal operations.
SQL> ALTER DATABASE ARCHIVELOG;
SQL>ALTER DATABASE OPEN;
SQL>archive log list; -- THIS SHOULD SHOW archive log enabled with the location.
SQL> SHUTDOWN IMMEDIATE;
SQL> create spfile from pfile='/location_to_pfile/init.ora';
SQL> startup;
SQL>archive log list ; -- just verify againAnd you are in business