RE: How to edit spfile ?/

  • From: Fuad Arshad <fuadar@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: oracledbam@xxxxxxxxxxx, ineyman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx, tomday2@xxxxxxxxx, davidsharples@xxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2006 15:48:21 -0700 (PDT)

but the real point is what parameter are you tryingto set that  need to be done 
in a way of convertingto pfile.
  all types of parameters can be set in an spfile  including "_"'s

Dean Paul <oracledbam@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
  My question is diffrent, Normally we can open pfile thru vi or any editor 
and make changes and restart database.Can we do similar with spfile?


>From: "Igor Neyman" 
>To: ,
>CC: ,,
>Subject: RE: How to edit spfile ?/
>Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2006 16:05:10 -0400
>
>That's strange.
>Any parameter you can change in pfile - you can change in spfile.
>
>Just not with every parameter you can do scope=both (meaning in memory
>and in spfile - immediate effect).
>So, for the the ones you can't - you do scope=spfile and restart the
>database.
>
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>Sent: Wednesday, April 26, 2006 3:58 PM
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>Cc: oracledbam@xxxxxxxxxxx; gorbyx@xxxxxxxxx; oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>Subject: Re: How to edit spfile ?/
>
>
>
>Usually the parameter that I want to change is something that can't be
>changed via ALTER SYSTEM. Very rarely do I get lucky and edit the
>spfile such that the checksum is still valid. The only way that I know
>of to always be able to alter the parameter in spfile is to create a
>pfile from the spfile, edit the pfile, restart the database from the
>pfile and create an spfile from the pfile.
>
>HUGE pain. Not a fan of spfile at all. Only use it when management
>insists.

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