How to start an Oracle database on Linux?

1 year ago
Emily Johnson
1 minute

To start the Oracle database on Linux, you can follow these steps:

  1. Make sure that you have properly installed the Oracle database software and have created a database instance.
  2. Open the terminal and log in as the root user.
  3. Navigate to the bin directory of the Oracle software installation directory, for example: /u01/app/oracle/product/12.2.0/dbhome_1/bin.
  4. Run the following command to start the listener:
  5. Start the listener control.
  6. Run the following command to start the Oracle database instance:
  7. Connect to the database as a sysdba using the command “sqlplus / as sysdba”.
  8. This will initiate the SQL*Plus tool and connect to the database with sysdba privileges.
  9. To start the database instance in SQL*Plus, run the following command:
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  11. Wait for the database to finish starting up, you will see a message indicating that the database has started.

In this way, you have successfully started the Oracle database on Linux.

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