How to shut down an Oracle database?

2 years ago
Benjamin Taylor
1 minute

To shut down the Oracle database, you can follow these steps:

  1. Open the command prompt or terminal window.
  2. Log in to the database server with administrator privileges.
  3. Enter the following command to connect to the database:
  4. Login to SQL*Plus as the system administrator using the command: sqlplus / as sysdba.
  5. Enter the system administrator password and then press the enter key.
  6. Enter the following command to shut down the database:
  7. immediately shut down.
  8. If there are user sessions or transactions in progress, the system will wait for these operations to complete before closing the database. If you want to forcefully close the database, you can use the “shutdown abort;” command, but this may result in loss of data from uncommitted transactions, so please use it with caution.
  9. When the message “Database closed” appears, it means that the database has been successfully closed.
  10. Enter the following command to exit sqlplus:
  11. Leave;
  12. Close the command prompt or terminal window.

Please be aware that shutting down the Oracle database will terminate all active database instances, so make sure to stop all related applications and ensure no users are using the database before shutting it down.

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