This determines what happens after an uncontrolled database server shutdown

The settings are:

• Automatic: Restart the database server automatically
• Manual restart: The database must be restarted manually

When Automatic is used no dialog box will be presented to the user when the server fails. I.e. the user may not start Dr. Watson or a debugger to capture additional information about the failure. However, in most situations the database server stores all relevant information in dedicated dump directories and in the event log.