On Tue, 24 Aug 2004 11:38:11 +0500, fahd mirza <fahd-m@(protected) > wrote:
> Hi Listers,
> Its an emergency please. I am experiencing a strange and baffling situation.I am running Oracle 8.1.6 on WIN2K. When in shell, I write svrmgrl, I get an error.
> svrmgrl > ORA-12560 (See ORA-12560.ora-code.com)-TNS PROTOCOL ADAPTER ERROR
The most likely causes for this in my experience are
1. ORACLE_SID is not set correctly. (Carel said this)
2. The database isn 't running! Check first that the db service is
running and secondly the alert.log
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