Oracle Utilities Pocket Reference

Name

dbstart

Use dbstart to start your Oracle instances. For dbstart to start an instance, the instance must be listed in the oratab file, and the last field for the corresponding entry must be “Y”. The command starts all instances that are so flagged.

Tip

dbstart is not available on Windows platforms.

Syntax

dbstart

Examples

In the following example of a dbstart command, only one instance is set to be started:

$ dbstart

SQL*Plus: Release 10.1.0.2.0 - Production on Wed Aug
25 19:30:24 2004
Copyright (c) 1982, 2004, Oracle.  All rights
reserved.

SQL> Connected to an idle instance.
SQL> ORACLE instance started.

Total System Global Area  188743680 bytes
Fixed Size                   778036 bytes
Variable Size             162537676 bytes
Database Buffers           25165824 bytes
Redo Buffers                 262144 bytes
Database mounted.
Database opened.
SQL> Disconnected from Oracle Database 10g Enterprise
Edition Release 10.1.0.2.0 - Production
With the Partitioning, OLAP and Data Mining options

Database "TEST10G1" warm started.

This example shows how dbstart is used from the command line. Usually dbstart is used to start up Oracle instances automatically during the system startup. To set up automatic startup of Oracle instances, refer to your operating system–specific Oracle documentation.