RE: Minimum required init.ora parameters

"compatibility" or "compatible" is not a mandatory init.ora parameter. I would think that only the first three are required.

Hemant

At 06:08 AM 13-01-03 -0800, you wrote:
>Nirmal - I believe there are four:
> db_name
> control_file
> db_block_size
> compatibility
>
>This is from John Hibbard, a great Oracle Education instructor.
>But why not try for yourself? Save off your init.ora, then create a new
>init.ora with just the above parameters. If Oracle comes up, then remove
>parameters. If there is another parameter, Oracle will tell you.
>
>
>
>Dennis Williams
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>List,
>
>I'm interested to know the minimum required parameters to startup the
>database.
>
>Pls anybody list out that?
>
>Nirmal.,
>
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