Re: Location of pFile

Bharat,

No. You may have and use many of them. Location is not stored in DB and neither in control file.
Default location for pfile is not very clear, btw. If you have immediate need finding it, try $ORACLE_BASE/admin/<sid>/pfile/.

Alexandre

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> Is there any way to discover the location of the pfile
> from a running oracle instance.
> It is possible that pfile is not at its default
> location i.e. $ORA_HOME/dbs/init<sid>.ora also it
> could have any other name also say xyz.ora.
> Is there any command/utility which can tell me the
> location+name of pfile.
>
> Thanks
> - Bharat
>
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