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Home -> Community -> Mailing Lists -> Oracle-L -> Re[2]: Shooting yourself in the spfile
Wednesday, February 18, 2004, 7:33:23 PM, Brian McGraw (brian.mcgraw_at_ipacc.com) wrote:
BM> But curious minds want to know, Jonathan... what did you change?? :)
I issued the following command:
ALTER SYSTEM SET SGA_TARGET=64M SCOPE=SPFILE Then I *attempted* to bounce my instance. Upon restart, I received a message telling me that my sga_target needed to be at least 184MB. Well! My first reaction was to wonder why the silly software let me set such a low value in the first place. Clearly, this is a case of the right-hand not knowing what the left-hand is doing.
I couldn't even start the instance in NOMOUNT mode. Thus, I was unable to issue any further ALTER SYSTEM commands, leaving me with a bad value in my spfile and no way to fix it. So far as I know, I had no choice but to fall back on my init.ora file.
Best regards,
Jonathan Gennick --- Brighten the corner where you are http://Gennick.com * 906.387.1698 * mailto:jonathan@gennick.com
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