Re: How does Oracle decide what init<sid>.ora to use?

From: Andy Hardy <newsjan01_at_ahardy.demon.co.uk>
Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2001 20:56:34 +0000
Message-ID: <9m7975AC0Xl6EwMW@ahardy.demon.co.uk>

In article <3a974d88.1240007025_at_192.168.0.10>, Chris S <cschofie_at_nospam.home.com> writes

>So my question is - when I reboot the server, and all the Oracle
>instaces startup, what tells Oracle to use the init file on the F:
>drive in this case, rather than the more obvious d:\orant\database
>version (d:\orant is the 'oracle home')? The only specific reference
>to the F: drive version of the init file was in the strt<sid>.cmd
>file, which you say is optional.

It's controlled by the services - they were created by ORADIM (or similar) and basically give an instance name and the parameter file to start the instance with. So, when the system starts the service it runs the correct strt*.cmd file.

Andy

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