Re: alter system reset

True, but it's often easier to cat|more|less a file that is a couple hundred megs than try to load it into vi.

Mladen Gogala <mladen_at_wangtrading.com>
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 10/30/2003 02:34 PM
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Of course, you can engage in the practice known as "safe hex", which means

using binary editors like "bvi", "bed" or "bitedit". That will help with safe editting of binary files.

On 10/30/2003 04:29:25 PM, Richard Ji wrote:
> On a Unix system, you can "tput reset" to clear up that mess after
viewing a binary file
> by accident.
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> Using an editor to view the binary file is a much better
> idea than displaying it directly to the screen. Doing so
> with a binary file will often corrupt the display.
>
> All that is needed is to close the window and open
> a new one, but that is kind of a pain at times as you
> lose your command history.
>
> Jared
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> "Arup Nanda" <orarup_at_hotmail.com>
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> Prem,
>
> The SPFILE should never be opened to be modified; opening a file to see
the
> contents are acceptable and that's what I said. Sometimes opening the
file
> in an editor may not be needed;
> "type" in Windows command prompt or "cat" in unix will let us achive the
> same objective.
>
> Talking about the SPFILE modification, you can't effectively modify it
with
> accuracy. The file is binary (actually binary in the beginning and then
text
> towards the bottom part), so even if you open it in notepad and save it,
> there is no guarantee that the file will be accurately saved with all
> contents intact.
>
> By the way, I have edited the SPFILE in some cases, only in development,
> though; but I wouldn't advise it to be done that way; always use ALTER
> SYSTEM ... SCOPE=SPFILE to modify it or edit the init.ora file and then
> create the SPFILE from it. You can create the spfile from pfile even
when
> the instance is down.
>
> HTH.
>
> Arup
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> > Arup Bhai, i remember oracle docs saying NOT to open a spfile and that
it
> may even
> > corrupt the file.
> >
> > Is that always true ?
> > Can the spfile be opened ?
> > can you kindly explain me ?
> >
> > Thanks & Regards,
> > Prem Khanna J.
> >
> >
> > 02-09-2003 04:14:26, "Arup Nanda" <orarup_at_hotmail.com> wrote:
> > >Does the entry even exist in the SPFILE? Open up the spfile in
notepad
> and
> > >check the existence of the parameter in there. Do the following:
> > >SQL> alter system set undo_suppress_errors = false scope=spfile
> sid='ananda';
> > >System altered.
> > >SQL> ALTER SYSTEM RESET undo_suppress_errors scope=spfile
sid='ananda';
> > >System altered.
> > >Arup
> >
> >
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