My only problem with creating pfile from spfile is I lose all of the internal documentation, why can't oracle keep all of those # lines in the spfile, dooohhh. joe _______________________________________ Joe Testa, Oracle Certified Professional (Work) 614-677-1668 (Cell) 614-312-6715 Interested in helping out your marriage? Ask me about "Weekend to Remember" Dec 11-13, 2009 here in Columbus. From: <Joel.Patterson@xxxxxxxxxxx> To: <genegurevich@xxxxxxxxxxxx>, <oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: 07/31/2009 01:19 PM Subject: RE: changing init.ora and spfile Sent by: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx You can do that. What I usually do is create a pfile from spfile (don't overwrite your changes if you have already edited yours. Then I can keep a human readable copy around. So do your renaming or whatever, and put in place the new init<>.ora file. Shutdown Create spfile from pfile; (sometimes I do the reverse also for same reasons as above, create pfile from spfile). Startup (it will use the spfile you just created). (Works as a test also, redundant or not). Joel Patterson Database Administrator 904 727-2546 -----Original Message----- From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of genegurevich@xxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Friday, July 31, 2009 1:09 PM To: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: changing init.ora and spfile Hello: I want to make sure that I am making this change correctly. I have a 10.2.0.3 DB which users spfile and I need to increase the SGA_MAX and SGA_TARGET parameters. My plan is to - modify the init.ora file - make a copy of an existing spfile - shut down the database - restart as startup using pfile=initXXX.ora - when database is started execute create spfile from pfile That should guarantee that these changes are in the spfile and will not be lost next time the database is bounced. Am I correct? thank you Gene Gurevich Please consider the environment before printing this email. -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l