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Shooting yourself in the spfile

Shooting yourself in the spfile

2004-02-18       - By Kirtikumar Deshpande
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But, of course!

In RAC environment 'strings ' is the one to go with.

We don 't RAC, so either one works for me !!

Cheers!

- Kirti


--- Mladen Gogala <mgogala@(protected) > wrote:
> Kirti, that 's what "strings " command is for.
> strings spfile >/tmp/init.ora and you 're good to
> go.
>
> On 02/18/2004 09:39:51 PM, Kirtikumar Deshpande wrote:
> > On UNIX
> >
> > grep '^* ' spfileSID.ora > initSID.ora
> >
> > will also get you going...
> >
> >
> > - Kirti
> >
> >
> > --- Jonathan Gennick <jonathan@(protected) > wrote:
> > > Wednesday, February 18, 2004, 8:27:34 PM, Adam Donahue (adonahue@(protected)) wrote:
> > > AD > Are you sure about that?
> > >
> > > I thought I was sure, but it turns out I didn 't test
> > > carefully enough. Shame on me.
> > >
> > > AD > I just tested this on a couple local instances, and was
> > > AD > able to create both a pfile from spfile, and spfile from
> > > AD > pfile, on an idle instance.
> > >
> > > Sure enough. I was wrong. It can be done:
> > >
> > > SQL > connect system/sql8plus4 as sysdba;
> > > Connected to an idle instance.
> > > SQL > create pfile= 'c:\a\init.ora ' from spfile= 'c:\oracle\ora10\database\SPFILEOR
> > > CL.ORA '
> > > 2 ;
> > >
> > > File created.
> > >
> > > Knowing this, it now seems possible to recover from a
> > > screwup without having to bother making backups each time I
> > > change a parameter.
> > >
> > > Life is good again.
> > >
> > > Best regards,
> > >
> > > Jonathan Gennick --- Brighten the corner where you are
> > > http://Gennick.com * 906.387.1698 * mailto:jonathan@(protected)
> > >
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