Starting and stopping the Oracle database server in Linux® environments

The following steps show an example of how to start or stop an Oracle database.

For more information, see the Oracle documentation.

Procedure

  1. Log on to the database server as a user with administrative privileges.
  2. In a shell window, navigate to the following directory: 
    <ORACLE_HOME>/bin

    For example: /opt/oracle/app/product/19.3.0/dbhome_1/bin.

  3. To start Oracle, do the following steps.
    1. Log in to SQL*Plus. 
      sqlplus / as sysdba
    2. Run the following command to start Oracle. 
      startup
  4. To stop Oracle, do the following steps.
    1. Log in to SQL*Plus. 
      sqlplus / as sysdba
    2. Run the following command to stop Oracle. 
      stop immediate