I don 't have experience with Oracle on XP, but on W2K you can connect / as
sysdba without a listener, but the service needs to be started - either
with oradim or with net start.
The ORA-12560 (See ORA-12560.ora-code.com) error points to the service not being started.
At 08:25 AM 9/26/2004, rjamya wrote:
>Based on my experience with running Oracle in XP-Pro (for training
>purpose only) I can attest that you can 't do a 'connect / as sysdba '
>without listener and the service running.
>
>But if I am wrong, it isn 't my fault ... it is the wrong OS.
>Raj
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Wolfgang Breitling
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