Re: Rollback segment question (need help)
Date: 20 Mar 92 16:42:20 GMT
Message-ID: <bill.701109740_at_chaos.cs.umn.edu>
lahti_at_pouta.fmi.fi (Mikko Lahti) writes:
>In article <50560_at_seismo.CSS.GOV> cooper_at_beno.CSS.GOV (Dale Cooper)
>writes:
> [good text deleted]
[even more deleted]
>I have used Oracle RDBMS v. 6.0 in VAX/VMS-machines for couple of
>years and edited only init.ora file. Works fine. In VMS every Oracle
>instance have its own directory with its own init.ora file and that's
>where startup command will find it. There is a "template" init.ora
>file in RDBMS directory that is copied into instance directory during
>database/instance creation.
>Might it be that it works differently in UNIX? (By the way, what
>is your operating system?) I don't have any experience from there.
i have used oracle on so many os's that i'd rather not think about it.
some use the init.ora some don't, some are only single instance oracle
and they do?!? weird
yes the install manual should tell you which way it will be.
bill_at_chaos.cs.umn.edu
>> The fun thing about Oracle and their glorious manuals is that there
>> is a lot going on in the background that they either neglect to
>> mention or some of the things in the manuals are downright WRONG.
>> DBA Guide Pg B-43 Under STARTUP. PFILE=filespec
>> And I quote: "Uses the specified parameter file while
>> starting up."
>> "If no file is specified, the default is the INIT.ORA file
>> found in its default location."
>> WRONG! That should read ...is the INIT[oracle_sid].ORA
>> file...
>But if it is system depented, it should be in ORACLE for [operating
>system] Installation and Users Guide. Anyway, I agree that manuals
>could be easier to use, thought I have seen worse :-(.
> [end deleted]
>> Dale Cooper, DBA Center for Seismic Studies Arlington, VA
>> (703)276-7900 x27 cooper_at_seismo.css.gov
>Mikko Lahti, Finnish Meteorological Institute, P.O.Box 503,
> Helsinki, Finland, Europe lahti_at_fmi.fi
Received on Fri Mar 20 1992 - 17:42:20 CET