RE: Why are SPFILEs binary anyway? (was RE: How to make SPFILE in

From: Jamadagni, Rajendra <Rajendra.Jamadagni_at_espn.com>
Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2003 21:46:45 -0400
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it isn't binary on solaris ... pure text ...

Raj

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From: Pardee, Roy E [mailto:roy.e.pardee_at_lmco.com] Sent: Wednesday, July 16, 2003 6:40 PM
To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Subject: Why are SPFILEs binary anyway? (was RE: How to make SPFILE in sync with INIT.ORA ?)

I can definitely appreciate the benefits of dynamic parameters, and of being able to persist the values of those parameters accross shutdown/startup cycles. But I would have guessed that oracle could have gotten both of those features together without going to a binary parameter file--couldn't whatever process writes to the spfile just write to a plain text file instead? Does anybody know what the advantage of having a binary store of params is?

Cheers,
-Roy

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it isn't binary on solaris ... pure text ...


Raj


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I can definitely appreciate the benefits of dynamic =
parameters, and of being able to persist the values of those parameters = accross shutdown/startup cycles.  But I would have guessed that = oracle could have gotten both of those features together without going = to a binary parameter file--couldn't whatever process writes to the = spfile just write to a plain text file instead?  Does anybody know = what the advantage of having a binary store of params is?

Cheers,
 -Roy


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