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I am using oracle 11g and trying to change password for sysdba

pauljohny100Feb 8 2017 — edited Feb 9 2017

Database versio n11g .

I tried changing sysdba password I have used the following command to achive it

orapwd file=c:/app/oracle/product/11.2.0/dbhome_4/database/initsat.ora password=oracle

i shut the database and restarted .

but i can still connect to sys as

sys/wrongpassword as sysdba

i thought the password or the only way to connect as sys will be as oracle

I thought that was the purpose of orapwd file ...can some one guide what can i be doing wrong

Thanks and regards

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