Re: Rebboot Windows DB machine and database autostart with spfile

you can try this:
in your init.ora file, put nothing but the following in:

SPFILE='path to your init.ora'

On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 2:19 PM, Jiang, Lu <Lu.Jiang_at_umassmed.edu> wrote:
> Hi all,
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> By default database auto starts with init pfile when reboot windows DB
> machine. In order to make database autostart using spfile, I edited registry
> key ORA_<SID>_PFILE from '...\init<SID>.ora' to '...\SPFILE<SID>.ora', but
> database does not auto start when the service restarted or machine rebooted,
> seems it does not take the binary file.
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> Is there a way to make the database service use spfile to auto start
> database on Windows environment?
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> Thanks,
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> Lu
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