From oracle-l-bounce@freelists.org Mon Oct 17 06:30:05 2005 Return-Path: Received: from air891.startdedicated.com (root@localhost) by orafaq.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id j9HBU2mE020174 for ; Mon, 17 Oct 2005 06:30:02 -0500 X-ClientAddr: 206.53.239.180 Received: from turing.freelists.org (freelists-180.iquest.net [206.53.239.180]) by air891.startdedicated.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id j9HBTVvX020044 for ; Mon, 17 Oct 2005 06:29:33 -0500 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by turing.freelists.org (Avenir Technologies Mail Multiplex) with ESMTP id 74D5A200FAB; Mon, 17 Oct 2005 06:28:47 -0500 (EST) Received: from turing.freelists.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (turing [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 07312-06; Mon, 17 Oct 2005 06:28:47 -0500 (EST) Received: from turing (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by turing.freelists.org (Avenir Technologies Mail Multiplex) with ESMTP id D1761200D99; Mon, 17 Oct 2005 06:28:46 -0500 (EST) From: "Lex de Haan" To: , Subject: RE: PFILE from SPFILE Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2005 13:26:30 +0200 Organization: Natural Join BV MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="----=_NextPart_000_000C_01C5D31E.63460520" X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.2180 thread-index: AcXTC+diWRl2SFRHQf699bEduDrFjwAAW05g In-Reply-To: <75aa80160510170412v769ccd37he044dae684193843@mail.gmail.com> Message-Id: <20051017112636.88CEF200E5B@turing.freelists.org> X-archive-position: 27051 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: oracle-l-bounce@freelists.org Errors-To: oracle-l-bounce@freelists.org X-original-sender: lex.de.haan@naturaljoin.nl Precedence: normal Reply-To: lex.de.haan@naturaljoin.nl X-list: oracle-l X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new-20030616-p9 (Debian) at avenirtech.net X-mailscan-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-mailscan-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-MailScanner-From: oracle-l-bounce@freelists.org X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.63 (2004-01-11) on air891.startdedicated.com X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-3.4 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,HTML_MESSAGE autolearn=ham version=2.63 ------=_NextPart_000_000C_01C5D31E.63460520 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_NextPart_001_000D_01C5D31E.63478BC0" ------=_NextPart_001_000D_01C5D31E.63478BC0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Deepak, *. prefix means "for all instances" ? stands for the $ORACLE_HOME path prefix hope this helps, kind regards, Lex. ------------------------------------------------------------------ Steve Adams Seminar http://www.naturaljoin.nl/events/seminars.html ------------------------------------------------------------------ _____ From: oracle-l-bounce@freelists.org [mailto:oracle-l-bounce@freelists.org] On Behalf Of DBA Deepak Sent: Monday, October 17, 2005 13:13 To: oracle-l@freelists.org Subject: PFILE from SPFILE Hi All, When I created a pfile from spfile the pfile has lines like the following.... *.background_dump_dest='?\admin\ I have a few doubts regarding that. 1> Why *. is there before each line. 2> Why the locations of the dumps as well as the control files have ?\ prefixed. 3> Even when i use sho parameter control_file it shows the ? Please help me in understanding the above. -- Regards, Deepak Oracle DBA ------=_NextPart_001_000D_01C5D31E.63478BC0 Content-Type: text/html; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

Deepak,

*. prefix means "for all instances"

? stands for the $ORACLE_HOME path = prefix

hope this helps,
kind=20 regards,

Lex.

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From: oracle-l-bounce@freelists.org=20 [mailto:oracle-l-bounce@freelists.org] On Behalf Of DBA=20 Deepak
Sent: Monday, October 17, 2005 13:13
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Subject: PFILE from = SPFILE

Hi All,

When I created a pfile from spfile the pfile has lines like the=20 following....

*.background_dump_dest=3D'?\admin\

I have a few doubts regarding that.

1> Why *. is there before each line.

2> Why the locations of the dumps as well as the control files = have=20 ?\ prefixed.

3> Even when i use sho parameter control_file it shows the = ?

Please help me in understanding the above.

--=20
Regards,

Deepak
Oracle DBA

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