Ramin Hossaini (blog)

Cancel Oracle shutdown

You might want to cancel a shutdown if you issued the wrong command when there were connected users.

If you try to shutdown immediate from another session, you’ll get this:

SQL> shutdown IMMEDIATE
ORA-24324: service handle NOT initialized
ORA-24323: VALUE NOT allowed
ORA-01089: IMMEDIATE shutdown IN progress - no operations are permitted

When you issue a shutdown, only the SYS/SYSTEM user will be able to connect, so open another SQL*Plus session and type this:

CONNECT /AS sysdba
startup force

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