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ORA-03113:END-OF-File on communication channel: how to resolve?

GianfriMay 30 2014 — edited Jun 9 2014

Hi all,

yesterday evening  I launched a somewhat complicated package I am writing, which spreads data received from an external system into a very big staging table, across serveral tables of my DB and takes some other actions based on the data received. When running, suddenly the Oracle instance died without a word. From that point on, the database isn't reachable anymore:

SQL*Plus: Release 12.1.0.1.0 Production on Fri May 30 11:03:46 2014

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Enter password:

ERROR:

ORA-01034: ORACLE not available

ORA-27101: shared memory realm does not exist

Process ID: 0

Session ID: 0 Serial number: 0

Now I am trying to resume the instance, without any success. The last thing I tried is to manually start the database, but with no luck:

sqlplus sys as sysdba

SQL*Plus: Release 12.1.0.1.0 Production on Fri May 30 10:56:27 2014

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Enter password:

Connected to an idle instance.

SQL> startup

ORACLE instance started.

Total System Global Area 1720328192 bytes

Fixed Size                  2403496 bytes

Variable Size            1342178136 bytes

Database Buffers          369098752 bytes

Redo Buffers                6647808 bytes

Database mounted.

ORA-03113: end-of-file on communication channel

Process ID: 1000

Session ID: 240 Serial number: 7

I am working directly at the server console. What can I do to recover my DB?

OS: Windows server 2008 R2 Standard, Service pack 1.

virtual machine running on a ESXi 5.0 host.

Database: 12.1.0.1.0

For any other info, just ask.

Thanks in advance,

Gianfranco

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