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Originally posted by jmodic
Setting NORMAL option asside for obvious reasons, no third party agent or back ground job that is "continuously" running on the database should have a particular influence on the speed/ability to perform SHUTDOWN IMMEDIATE.
True in theory, and used to think the same way, but not in practise. I have hit multiple times on my installations when I checked and killed those sessions after cancelling the shutdown process and retried the database came down in no time. This is what I can interpret from what I had hit before.