I also heard, at a 10g presentation yesterday, that a lot of the new, spiffy, automated tuning features require the exclusive use of the spfile. Brian --------------------------------- | Brian McGraw -+- Senior DBA | | mailto:Brian.McGraw@xxxxxxxxx | --------------------------------- -----Original Message----- From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Grabowy, Chris Sent: Friday, February 20, 2004 8:18 AM To: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: RE: Shooting yourself in the spfile I believe DataGuard requires spfiles. Like CBO, I believe its just a matter of time before more and more new features require spfile. IMHO, if I have to make a change to a database, I want to do it from within the database not from the OS. We have a couple hundred databases, to manually update pfiles takes forever and is error prone, but running a bunch of ALTER DATABASE commands is quick/easy. YMMV. (slithering back into my lurker corner) -----Original Message----- From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Nuno Souto Sent: Thursday, February 19, 2004 4:40 AM To: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: Shooting yourself in the spfile Fix the illness, not the symptom: stop using the spfile. Totally unnecessary feature. Cheers Nuno Souto in sunny Sydney, Australia dbvision@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jonathan Gennick" <jonathan@xxxxxxxxxxx> To: <oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > All this has underscored the importance of backing myself up > when it comes to parameter changes, and I'm wondering about > best-practices. What do you all do to protect yourself here? > I can think of two alternatives: > ---------------------------------------------------------------- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com ---------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe send email to: oracle-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx put 'unsubscribe' in the subject line. -- Archives are at //www.freelists.org/archives/oracle-l/ FAQ is at //www.freelists.org/help/fom-serve/cache/1.html ----------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com ---------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe send email to: oracle-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx put 'unsubscribe' in the subject line. -- Archives are at //www.freelists.org/archives/oracle-l/ FAQ is at //www.freelists.org/help/fom-serve/cache/1.html ----------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com ---------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe send email to: oracle-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx put 'unsubscribe' in the subject line. -- Archives are at //www.freelists.org/archives/oracle-l/ FAQ is at //www.freelists.org/help/fom-serve/cache/1.html -----------------------------------------------------------------