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Home -> Community -> Mailing Lists -> Oracle-L -> RE: Shooting yourself in the spfile
True.
I believe there is a comments column.
I haven't done this, but this is where wrapping the call to ALTER SYSTEM in a PL/SQL package would elegantly solve the documentation problem. You pass in your parameter, value, comments for the change, since your prompted for all of it, and all the information is stored in tables that are queryable, reportable, blah, blah. The tables could also hold the before parameter values, and you can use it to generate ALTER commands to undo parameter changes. And so on, and so on.
Again, spfiles are not pfiles, therefore you have to change your way of thinking and the way you administrator.
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From: oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org
[mailto:oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org]On Behalf Of Mercadante, Thomas F
Sent: Friday, February 20, 2004 9:54 AM
To: 'oracle-l_at_freelists.org'
Subject: RE: Shooting yourself in the spfile
Niall,
Aren't you glad that you still have the init.ora file? :)
As for the SPfile, Chris's example is the only one that I've seen so far
that makes any sense for using the Spfile. When you are managing
hundreds
of databases across many remote sites, the Spfile makes sense.
I just wish that the Spfile had a way of documenting when something was
changed. When I change the Init.ora, I leave notes within the file
detailing what changed and when for histories sake. The Spfile is just
a
mish-mash of the params not suitable for viewing. So now, I would need
to
update two things - the Spfile (via OEM or SqlPLus) and a Word document
keeping track off changes.
I'm not sure if this is better or worse.
Tom Mercadante
Oracle Certified Professional
-----Original Message-----
From: Niall Litchfield [mailto:n-litchfield_at_audit-commission.gov.uk]
Sent: Friday, February 20, 2004 9:36 AM
To: oracle-l_at_freelists.org
Subject: RE: Shooting yourself in the spfile
Don't you just love it when a demo goes even better than you anticipated
ORA-00381: cannot use both new and old parameters for buffer cache size
spe=
cification
SQL> oops
SP2-0042: unknown command "oops" - rest of line ignored.
SQL> create spfile from pfile
2 ;
create spfile from pfile
*
ERROR at line 1:
ORA-00600: internal error code, arguments: [908], [], [], [], [], [],
[], []
:(=20
Niall Litchfield
Oracle DBA
Audit Commission
+44 117 975 7805=20
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