Re: Asterisks in init.ora parameters

  • From: David Sharples <davidsharples@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: MATT.ADAMS@xxxxxx
  • Date: Tue, 27 Sep 2005 19:31:45 +0100

is used for RAC where you can have a shared spfile and have the instance
name instead of the *.
 However in your case someone at one point did
 create pfile from spfile; and started using that to start the instance

 On 9/27/05, Adams, Matthew (GE Consumer & Industrial) <MATT.ADAMS@xxxxxx>
wrote:
>
>
> Anybody ever seen a init.ora file in an init.ora file that looks like
>
> *.db_block_size=8192
> *.db_cache_size=256M
>
> etc?
>

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