Thanks a lot for your reply. Would like to know why the DBUA complains about
CONTROL FILE (Unable to identify Control File) ? I have the control_file
parameter set in ? format. Any workarround???
On 10/17/05, Ric Van Dyke <Ric.Van.Dyke_at_hotsos.com> wrote:
>
> 1 - The * is for any instance. If you had a RAC setup it is possible for
> each instance in the RAC to have some (not all) of the parameters set to
> different values, if they did then the parameter would like like:
> <instance name>.<parameter name>
> 2 - The ? is a short cut for ORACLE_HOME
>
> Ric Van Dyke
> Ric.van.Dyke_at_hotsos.com
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>
> ----- Original Message -----
> *From: *DBA Deepak
> *Sent: *Mon Oct 17 07:08:01 EDT 2005
> *To: *oracle-l_at_freelists.org
> *Subject: *PFILE from SPFILE
>
> 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
>
>
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Regards,
Deepak
Oracle DBA
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Received on Mon Oct 17 2005 - 06:29:14 CDT
