Re: init file ???

Hello Leslie

Checked it out on our NT 9.0.1 DB.
The pfile in database just include the other pfile in the admin subdirectory..

Yechiel Adar
Mehish
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> Hi,
>
> I'm using 9.0.1 on win2000. When a database is
> created using configuration assistant, two init files
> are created: one in ORA_HOME/database, and the other
> in ORA_HOME/admin/SID/pfile. Here are my questions:
>
> 1. what's the difference between these two, why
> created two copies.
>
> 2. the one in ORA_HOME/database has strange format ef:
> *.variable=value, why?
>
> 3. how to find out which init file the db is using,
> assuming the db cannot be mounted. I got a problem
> that the alert.log keeps telling me the control file
> cannot be found.
>
> ORA-00202: controlfile:
> 'c:\ora_9i\oradata\small\datafile\small.ctl' (I didn't
> specify this path in both init file, where did Oracle
> get this directory???)
>
> O/S-Error: (OS 2) The system cannot find the file
> specified.
>
> Since db is not mounted yet, I cannot use show
> parameter pfile. So how do I know which init file
> Oracle is reading?
>
> Thank you!
>
> Leslie
>
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