Hi Naveen,
Thanks for your feed back... Need to have few more details...
> Does the file get created by default?
> What if I do not want to lock the SGA?
> As I have read soemwhere that on Windows Platform you can not guarantee
the locking of the SGA. Is it true?
On 10/19/05, Nahata, Naveen (US - Hyderabad) <nnahata_at_deloitte.com> wrote:
>
> I think it is similar to lk<sid> file in UNIX.
> This file is used to lock shared memory. The file should not be deleted
> while the instance is running.
> Naveen
>
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> *Subject:* hc_<sid>.dat
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> Hi All,
> In my 10g DB I found files named hc_<sid>.dat in <ORACLE_HOME>\database
> folder on my W2K box. When I opened the file through text editor it did seem
> like a binary file containing a line "DO NOT DELETE OR OVERWRITE THIS
> FILE!!!" in the begining.
> Want to know what kind of file is this and what is it's use?
> Any idea DBAs.......?
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