I checked this on my 9.2 Oracle on win2k:
1- Database is up and running
2- There is no init<sid>.ora
3- show parameters indicate a parameter called spfile
4- checked v$parameter and found spfile is defined by default to
spfile<sid>.ora
5- renamed the file spfile.
6- shutdown the database.
7- try to restart the database.
8- It failed saying can not find init<sid>.ora
9- Copied spfile to init.ora
10- restart the database.
11- Failed. It complains about the file format (it's binary).
12- Let's rename spfile file back to its original name.
12- Now we have a wrong init.ora and correct spfile.
13- restart the database.
14- Database is up and no errors. It never complains about the format of
init.ora which indicates that it checks first for spfile
if it's there it restarts the database without reading init.ora. If
there is no spfile then Oracle tries to use init.ora.
15- I used to edit spfile in 9.01 on Solaris using vi and it worked.
Regards,
Waleed
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For Oracle 9.2 (Solaris), can anyone tell me where Oracle is expecting the
init.ora file?
I created the database using dbca. It created an init.ora in
admin/{db_name}/pfile. I moved this to $ORACLE_HOME/dbs and renamed the
original init.ora file. Then I discovered that Oracle is not reading the new
init.ora. The database starts fine, with no errors. I tried moving the
init.ora file back to the original pfile location, but it is still not
reading it. Specifically, I am trying to set LOG_ARCHIVE_START = true, but I
have made other changes and they are not taking effect either.
I have searched the documentation, and while there is the new SPFILE, there
is no indication how this might affect my problem.
Any insights from someone that has turned archiving on with 9.2 would be
appreciated.
Dennis Williams
DBA, 20% OCP
Lifetouch, Inc.
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