Re: Oracle 10g RAC load-balancing configuration

JEDIDIAH wrote:

>> I should have been clearer. You can but there are many reasons why
>> you should not. You just hit one very important one. The other
>> reason is that if the init.ora files are different, and Murphy's
>> Law clearly indicates this will happen sooner or later, you would
>> have different instances with different parameters: A very bad idea.

> 
> 	Using spfiles isn't going to change that.
> 
> 	pfiles and spfiles are completely interchangeable with respect
> to how dbca handles this consistency issue.

If one wishes to do stupid things nothing can stop them. Oracle's recommendation, though, is clearly spfiles.

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