From oracle-l-bounce@freelists.org Mon Oct 17 06:26:21 2005 Return-Path: Received: from air891.startdedicated.com (root@localhost) by orafaq.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id j9HBQJBw019255 for ; Mon, 17 Oct 2005 06:26:19 -0500 X-ClientAddr: 206.53.239.180 Received: from turing.freelists.org (freelists-180.iquest.net [206.53.239.180]) by air891.startdedicated.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id j9HBQDvX019193 for ; Mon, 17 Oct 2005 06:26:14 -0500 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by turing.freelists.org (Avenir Technologies Mail Multiplex) with ESMTP id 48DDB200EC1; Mon, 17 Oct 2005 06:26:00 -0500 (EST) Received: from turing.freelists.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (turing [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 06446-09; Mon, 17 Oct 2005 06:26:00 -0500 (EST) Received: from turing (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by turing.freelists.org (Avenir Technologies Mail Multiplex) with ESMTP id 9BEA4200E8D; Mon, 17 Oct 2005 06:25:59 -0500 (EST) To: oracle.tutorials@gmail.com, oracle-l@freelists.org Subject: Re: PFILE from SPFILE References: <75aa80160510170412v769ccd37he044dae684193843@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2005 14:23:36 +0300 From: "Yavor Ivanov" Organization: Stemo Ltd Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; delsp=yes; charset=koi8-r MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <75aa80160510170412v769ccd37he044dae684193843@mail.gmail.com> User-Agent: Opera M2/8.01 (Win32, build 7642) X-archive-position: 27048 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: oracle-l-bounce@freelists.org Errors-To: oracle-l-bounce@freelists.org X-original-sender: Yavor_Ivanov@stemo.bg Precedence: normal Reply-To: Yavor_Ivanov@stemo.bg X-list: oracle-l X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new-20030616-p9 (Debian) at avenirtech.net X-mailscan-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-mailscan-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-MailScanner-From: oracle-l-bounce@freelists.org X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.63 (2004-01-11) on air891.startdedicated.com X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-4.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=2.63 "*." comes for "all instances". It is used by RAC databases, where you have more than 1 instance per database. I haven't seen this "?", but it sounds like "?"=$oracle_base$ Rgds, yavor On Mon, 17 Oct 2005 14:12:39 +0300, DBA Deepak wrote: > Hi All, > When I created a pfile from spfile the pfile has lines like the > following.... > *.background_dump_dest='?\admin\ > I have a few doubts regarding that. > 1> Why **.* is there before each line. > 2> Why the locations of the dumps as well as the control files have > *?\*prefixed. > 3> Even when i use sho parameter control_file it shows the ? > Please help me in understanding the above. > > -- > Regards, > > Deepak > Oracle DBA -- http://www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l