Re: How to speed up Oracle 9.2.0 on SuSE Enterprise Server 7

"Howard J. Rogers" <howardjr2000_at_yahoo.com.au> wrote in message news:trXm9.45450$g9.129931_at_newsfeeds.bigpond.com...
> > er "parameter file" ?
>
> Bong! That won't do, because it gets abbreviated to 'pfile', and that's
too
> specific. We're looking for generics here

My point was NOT to abbreviate it just because we work in IT and like abbreviations. I haven't ever felt the need to refer to a control file as a cfile for example. It seems to me that spfiles and pfiles are both parameter files (albeit with differences), as for that matter are included parameter files ifile='blah'. surely all parameter file suggests is that it is a file holding parameters? If we are to avoid specifics why not just define a new term altogether.

ZARG (n) a list of startup parameters for an Oracle instance held in an operating system file.

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Niall Litchfield
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Audit Commission UK
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