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Home -> Community -> Mailing Lists -> Oracle-L -> RE: Shooting yourself in the spfile
It could be the evolution of RAC prompted to invent spfile, where
cluster of instances can be managed by one single spfile binary file
moreover, they can be placed in raw partition since its being
binary. or a leap towards self-managing database.
you may never know.
-skumar
Jonathan Gennick wrote:
>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.
>
>Best regards,
>
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