REAL DBAs don't need comments?
:)
- Tim Gorman <Tim_at_SageLogix.com> wrote:
> I always thought it was for separating instance-specific parameters
> from database-specific parameters in an OPS environment. At least,
> that's one place where it is very useful to have separate files. Of
> course, it was a matter of style whether "config.ora" was the
> database-level one or vice-versa...
>
> Also, somewhere back in the mists of time, any ".ora" file for
> initialization parameters had to be less than 10,000 characters in
> size; anything beyond that boundary was simply not used (I kid you
> not!). So, having multiple files related by "ifile=" was the
> workaround, especially for those neurotic souls who insisted on
> leaving comments for documentation...
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Fink, Dan
> To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
> Sent: Thursday, June 13, 2002 10:48 AM
> Subject: Init.ora and Config.ora
>
>
> Beware...DBA heresy below...
>
> I am in the process of cleaining up parameter files and wonder why
> we still maintain an init.ora and config.ora. The original rational
> was that one contained the database configuration/creation parameters
> while the other was used for tuning.
>
> Is there a good reason why we have 2 files instead of a single
> file?
> Daniel W. Fink
> Sr. Oracle DBA
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>
>
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