Re: Shooting yourself in the spfile

  • From: Adam Donahue <adonahue@xxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2004 17:02:46 -0800

Oh, well, talk to Oracle about that one, buddy! ;)

Adam

Jonathan Gennick wrote:

>Wednesday, February 18, 2004, 7:42:54 PM, Adam Donahue (adonahue@xxxxxxxxxxx) 
>wrote:
>AD> An advantage of using an spfile is that when starting a database from 
>AD> remote, the pfile might not be available
>
>Right, but that's no reason to make the spfile a binary
>file. The server could just as easily read a text file. Of
>course, when changing parameters, I suppose it's easier for
>the server to write a new value into a binary file than into
>a text file.
>
>Best regards,
>
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