ORA-01033: ORACLE initialization or shutdown in progress
An instance I have here is in a strange state. (Windows Server 2012, Oracle 11.2.0.4).
When I open a CMD-prompt and enter sqlplus user/password@sid I'm getting
an ORA-01033.
When I do a SET SID=<sid> and enter SqlPlus user/password I can connect fine and
do normal databse operations. This is the picture:
SQL*Plus: Release 11.2.0.4.0 Production on Mo Aug 10 11:28:51 2015 Copyright (c) 1982, 2013, Oracle. All rights reserved. Benutzernamen eingeben: / as sysdba Verbunden mit: Oracle Database 11g Enterprise Edition Release 11.2.0.4.0 - 64bit Production With the Partitioning, OLAP, Data Mining and Real Application Testing options SQL> select status, database_status from v$instance; STATUS DATABASE_STATUS ------------ ----------------- OPEN ACTIVE SQL> select open_mode from v$database; OPEN_MODE -------------------- READ WRITE SQL>