Read last shutdown information

Question

Hello.
Where can I read information about last shutdown (a type of shutdown - normal, transactional, immediate, abort ...)?
Thanks.

Answer 1

Hi,
In that case you can write a startup and shutdown trigger on the database.
In the shutdown trigger,
-You would add a record in your table (say log table), all the details which you need to analyze by your client application.
The below is optional if you want to check for abort condition.
In the startup trigger.
-You would add a record about the timing of the startup of the database.
- Moreover you would also check the last inserted record. If the last inserted record was that of startup. This would mean that the last shutdown was not a clear shutdown could be a result of crash/abort (As it does not fire the shutdown trigger). If this is the case you would make a entry of shutdown here (time of shutdown would not be known but you can do approximation from v$log / v$archived_log).
Regards
Anurag Tibrewal.