[Solved]Starting up the database

Question

Hi Gurus,
I have installed Oracle 10g Release2 in my Windows XP machine.
I created 2 databases A and B.
Now I would like to start the database manually.
I set the ORACLE_SID=A. If I want to use the OS authentication I can go with
sqlplus /nolog
SQL> connect / as sysdba.
Now I get connected to an ideal instance and it goes good from there. But if I want to use the encrypted File autherntication (connecting from remote machine) what should I do while connecting?
Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

You need to statically configure your database with the listener. See this example :
[oracle@linux5_10 admin]$ cat listener.ora
LISTENER =
  (DESCRIPTION_LIST =
    (DESCRIPTION =
      (ADDRESS = (PROTOCOL = TCP)(HOST = localhost)(PORT = 1521))
SID_LIST_LISTENER =
  (SID_LIST =
(SID_DESC =
(SID_NAME = db102)
(ORACLE_HOME = /home/oracle/base/OraHome10)    )
[oracle@linux5_10 admin]$ lsnrctl start
LSNRCTL for Linux: Version 10.2.0.3.0 - Production on 16-JUL-2008 17:14:00
Copyright (c) 1991, 2006, Oracle.  All rights reserved.
Starting /home/oracle/base/OraHome10/bin/tnslsnr: please wait...
TNSLSNR for Linux: Version 10.2.0.3.0 - Production
System parameter file is /home/oracle/base/OraHome10/network/admin/listener.ora
Log messages written to /home/oracle/base/OraHome10/network/log/listener.log
Listening on: (DESCRIPTION=(ADDRESS=(PROTOCOL=tcp)(HOST=localhost)(PORT=1521)))
Connecting to (DESCRIPTION=(ADDRESS=(PROTOCOL=TCP)(HOST=localhost)(PORT=1521)))
STATUS of the LISTENER
Alias                     LISTENER
Version                   TNSLSNR for Linux: Version 10.2.0.3.0 - Production
Start Date                16-JUL-2008 17:14:01
Uptime                    0 days 0 hr. 0 min. 0 sec
Trace Level               off
Security                  ON: Local OS Authentication
SNMP                      OFF
Listener Parameter File   /home/oracle/base/OraHome10/network/admin/listener.ora
Listener Log File         /home/oracle/base/OraHome10/network/log/listener.log
Listening Endpoints Summary...
  (DESCRIPTION=(ADDRESS=(PROTOCOL=tcp)(HOST=localhost)(PORT=1521)))
Services Summary...
Service "db102" has 1 instance(s).
  Instance "db102", status UNKNOWN, has 1 handler(s) for this service...
The command completed successfully
[oracle@linux5_10 admin]$
C:\>sqlplus sys/manager@db102 as sysdba
SQL*Plus: Release 10.2.0.1.0 - Production on Wed Jul 16 17:14:31 2008
Copyright (c) 1982, 2005, Oracle.  All rights reserved.
Connected to an idle instance.
SQL> startup
ORACLE instance started.
Total System Global Area  239075328 bytes
Fixed Size                  1261104 bytes
Variable Size             201327056 bytes
Database Buffers           33554432 bytes
Redo Buffers                2932736 bytes
Database mounted.
Database opened.
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