All it means, that there is some other service running, that depends on
oracle service.
The simplest way to find it is to go to ControlPanel/Service, and try to
stop OracleService <SID >. It will show the dialog box with the name of
"dependnet " service and ask for your confirmation to stop that service
(as well as OracleService <SID > >). If you proceed, it 'll stop both
services.
In the future, if you want to use oradim to stop oracle service, you
will have first to stop dependent serice, using:
Net stop <dependent_service_name >
and only then use oradim to stop oracle service.
Igor Neyman, OCP DBA
ineyman@(protected)
-- --Original Message-- --
From: oracle-l-bounce@(protected)
[mailto:oracle-l-bounce@(protected)] On Behalf Of Burton, Laura
Sent: Friday, November 12, 2004 4:24 PM
To: oracle-l@(protected)
Subject: ORA-00018 (See ORA-00018.ora-code.com)
Receiving the following error when using oradim to shutdown a database:
DIM-00018: Failed to stop Oracle Service
O/S-Error: (OS 1051 > A stop control has been sent to a service which
other running services are dependent on.
This is Oracle 9.2 database on NT4.0. I 've reviewed postings on
Metalink but no answers were found.
Anyone have an idea of something to try? I have stopped the services
through the control panel and stopped the application which references
the database. I don 't find anything in the alert log. There is a trace
log but that is like reading brail when you 've never had too.
