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Rene Nyffenegger <rene.nyffenegger_at_gmx.ch> wrote:
>Try:
>alter system set utl_file_dir='c:\temp' scope = spfile;
>Then restart the database.
could I not simply have done
alter system set utl_file_dir='c:\temp' scope = both?
I got this info here
http://www.adp-gmbh.ch/ora/sql/alter_system.html
8-)
Paul...
BTW, how can I know/find out which parameters are changeable by altering the system and restarting, and which ones can be changed dynamically, on the fly, by issuing an SQL statement against v$parameters, or by issuing a command from SQLPlus set paramname='Blah';?
I've tried googling, but can't seem to find it.
>Rene
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