3 Starting Up and Shutting Down

This chapter describes the procedures for starting up and shutting down an Oracle Database instance and contains the following topics:

• Starting Up a Database

• Altering Database Availability

• Shutting Down a Database

• Quiescing a Database

• Suspending and Resuming a Database

  See Also:

  Oracle Real Application Clusters Administration and Deployment Guide for additional information specific to an Oracle Real Application Clusters environment