Re[2]: Shooting yourself in the spfile

From: Jonathan Gennick <jonathan_at_gennick.com>
Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2004 19:57:58 -0500
Message-ID: <13044333648.20040218195758@gennick.com>

Wednesday, February 18, 2004, 7:42:54 PM, Adam Donahue (adonahue_at_opsware.com) wrote: AD> An advantage of using an spfile is that when starting a database from AD> remote, the pfile might not be available

Right, but that's no reason to make the spfile a binary file. The server could just as easily read a text file. Of course, when changing parameters, I suppose it's easier for the server to write a new value into a binary file than into a text file.

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