Can't you go to $ORACLE_HOME/dbs and see where the symbolic link is
pointing? ... or am I not grasping the full extent of the question?
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Jon Walthour
Oracle DBA
Computer Horizons
Cincinnati, Ohio
> From: "Deshpande, Kirti" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Organization: Fat City Network Services, San Diego, California
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> Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2001 13:50:31 -0800
> To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: RE: which initSID?
>
> Seema,
> There is no way to find that out.
> Unless, the init.ora uses ifile option and the file pointed to by ifile
> contains all the parameters. In that case you can query v$parameter view to
> see what ifile points to.
> By default Oracle looks for it in the $ORACLE_HOME/dbs directory.
>
> HTH,
>
> - Kirti Deshpande
> Verizon Information Services
> http://www.superpages.com
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Seema Singh [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>> Sent: Monday, June 25, 2001 2:09 PM
>> To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
>> Subject: which initSID?
>>
>> Hi gurus
>> How we know which initSID.ora file are in use in running instance if disk
>> is
>> not designed as OFA?
>> Where can I found referenced tables name menas which Data dictionary
>> table?
>> Thanks
>> -Seema
>>
>>
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