Terry, It looks like my "parm.sql" script and I did write that, but I'm sure it is one those queries that many people have written independently of one another and at various times over the past 10-15 years or so. My intention was an enhanced SHOW PARAMETER command. It and its partners (i.e. "nondefparm.sql" displays parms set to non-default values and "unparm.sql" displays undocumented [underscore and event] parms that have been set) reside online at "http://www.evdbt.com/tools.htm";... Thanks! -Tim on 11/19/04 3:33 PM, Terry Sutton at terrysutton@xxxxxxx wrote: > Check your underscore init params. Jonathan Lewis has counted 22 > optimizer-related init params which have changed whose defaults have changed > from FALSE to TRUE in 9i. It's possible that your 32-bit DB had one of > these changed to FALSE, and the 64-bit is TRUE. Or something like that. > > You say your init.ora is the same, but it wouldn't hurt to look at the > parameters in the DB themselves. > > As sys: > col parameter format a50 heading "Instance Parameter and Value" > word_wrapped > col description format a20 heading "Description" word_wrapped > col dflt format a5 heading "Dflt?" word_wrapped > > select rpad(i.ksppinm, 35) || ' = ' || v.ksppstvl parameter, > i.ksppdesc description, > v.ksppstdf dflt > from x$ksppi i, > x$ksppcv v > where v.indx = i.indx > and v.inst_id = i.inst_id > and i.ksppinm like '&name%' > order by i.ksppinm > / > > --Terry > full disclosure-- I believe the query above originated with Tim Gorman. -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l