Babette,
Bruce has the answer right-on regarding how NT starts Oracle services.
Another way to accomplish this is to use ORADIM to point to the
%oracle_home%\database\
directory. This is what I do so that I have one place to look for the
init.ora file. I personally do not like the -ifile option - drives me crazy
having to chase the files all over the place.
Tom Mercadante
Oracle Certified Professional
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Sent: Friday, August 17, 2001 8:45 AM
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Thanks Bruce.
That ifile part was the part I was missing.
(looks like the the closest I can get to a unix link)
I like the ifile implementation better than having
two copies of the init.ora.
Babette
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Bruce (CALBBAY)
Sent: Friday, August 17, 2001 12:21 AM
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Babette,
I'm not sure if I have read this anywhere but I think that the registry
entry (as created by oradim) might be used when the service is started.
However, when using startup the Oracle executable looks in
%oracle_home%\database for the file initMINE.ora.
What I do is create a file called in the database directory that has just 1
line - an ifile pointing to the pfile in the pfile directory.
This is what the Database create wizard does in terms of the inti file.
So for example I have something like:
C:\oracle\product\817\database>type initbdb2.ora
IFILE='c:\oracle\admin\BDB2\pfile\pfileBDB2.ora'
C:\oracle\product\817\database>dir c:\oracle\admin\bdb2\pfile
Directory of c:\oracle\admin\bdb2\pfile
19/07/2001 13:49 <DIR> .
19/07/2001 13:49 <DIR> ..
20/07/2001 14:51 4,733 pfileBDB2.ora
Of course, just like Unix, when using the startup command you can specify
the full path and name of the init file if you wish.
Regards,
Bruce
-----Original Message-----
Sent: Friday, 17 August 2001 1:51
As everyone in this thread seems so knowledgeable
about NT, I would like to digress and ask a related question.
When I use oradim to create a service,
oradim -new -sid MINE -pfile c:\mine\initMINE.ora .....
The service is created, the instance is started!!
BUT, when I use svrmgrl to shutdown the instance
and then try to start it up, it complains because the
init file does not exist in %ORACLE_HOME%\pfile
BUT the oradim DID create the entry:
ORA_MINE_PFILE = c:\mine\initMINE.ora
So what is this registry entry used for?
And why do I need to place the init.or under
%ORACLE_HOME%\pfile
Thanks
Babette
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