RE: Shooting yourself in the spfile

From: Igor Neyman <ineyman_at_perceptron.com>
Date: Fri, 20 Feb 2004 11:08:18 -0500
Message-ID: <001c01c3f7cb$c1515320$0704a8c0@development.perceptron.com>

Yes "ALTER SYSTEM ..." is logged in alert.log, But you can also see it in "update_comment" column of v$parameter

Igor Neyman, OCP DBA
ineyman_at_perceptron.com

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From: oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org
[mailto:oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org] On Behalf Of Post, Ethan Sent: Friday, February 20, 2004 10:46 AM To: oracle-l_at_freelists.org
Subject: RE: Shooting yourself in the spfile

Wouldn't it be in the alert logs?

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From: Igor Neyman [mailto:ineyman_at_perceptron.com] Sent: Friday, February 20, 2004 9:11 AM
To: oracle-l_at_freelists.org
Subject: RE: Shooting yourself in the spfile

Actually you don't have to have Word document to keep track of changes. There is "UPDATE_COMMENT" column in v$parameter, and you set it "COMMENT" clause when you run
ALTER SYSTEM SET ... COMMENT='whatever' SCOPE=...

Well, there is a limitation of 255 characters for comment.

Igor Neyman, OCP DBA
ineyman_at_perceptron.com

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[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

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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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