There are avaialable in the registry with String values 

'ORA_SID_PFILE' and 'ORA_SID_PWFILE'

>From this you can find out the directory of the Password file

Regards
Naveen


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These aren't available dynamically, and are not available 
from the registry, at least I can't find them there.

No need to hard code: just setup a conguration file for your 
script to use, that includes these locations.

Jared






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        Subject:        Dictionary location or initSID.ora and PWDsid.ora


Can I dynamicall find the location of initSID.ora 
Eg C:\admin\INSTANCE\PFILE\initSID.ora
and the password dir
E.g C:\Oracle\Ora81\DATABASE\*.ora

Im setting up a cold backup script and would like to include these 2 dir

Im poking around in the v$ tables but cant seem to find it
Id like to avoid hardcoding the values

Thanks!!
bob
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