Re: Shooting yourself in the spfile

From: Mladen Gogala <mladen_at_wangtrading.com>
Date: Fri, 20 Feb 2004 09:30:27 -0500
Message-ID: <20040220143027.GA1834@mladen.wangtrading.com>

On 02/20/2004 09:18:03 AM, "Grabowy, Chris" wrote:

> IMHO, if I have to make a change to a database, I want to do it from
> within the database not from the OS.

The problem is editing. It's still much faster to use "vi", or "emacs" for heathens, then to modify parameters from sqlplus.

> We have a couple hundred
> databases, to manually update pfiles takes forever and is error prone,
> but running a bunch of ALTER DATABASE commands is quick/easy. YMMV.

Alter database? Chris, I have bad news for you: "alter database" will modify your database, while "alter system" can be used to modify your spfile. What do you want to modify? Where do you want to go today?
>
> (slithering back into my lurker corner)

You can slither, but you can't hide.

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