Standby database & ORA-01033 Error
edited Jun 9, 2015 10:31AM in High Availability Data Guard, Sharding and Global Data Services (MOSC) 4 commentsAnswered ✓
Just been building a standby database in 11.2.0.4.
The view V$ARCHIVE_DEST_STATUS was showing
ORA-01033: ORACLE initialization or shutdown in progress
in the column ERROR.
It turns out that this was caused by not having the orapw file copied over to the standby database.
So, if you get this error when checking on the primary:
SELECT ERROR FROM V$ARCHIVE_DEST_STATUS
ORA-01033: ORACLE initialization or shutdown in progress
Check that the password files have been set up properly!
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