Whats a catch-42, a catch-22 that 's 20 years old?
now back to our regularly scheduled program.
joe
original message below
Ah, the chicken or the egg...
Control files are identified by the parameter (spfile/init.ora) file. If
you kept the parameters in the control file, how would the database know
which control files to read? And if a control file was lost? How would
you edit the control file to change the parameter to point to a
different control file?
Sounds like a catch-42.
Regards,
Daniel
in sunny Denver, Colorado
Nuno Souto wrote:
Why complicate things indeed? If it had to be a binary file,
it could well have been the control file as you suggest.
All this spfile/pfile rigmarole is just an unnecessary
and unwarranted complication. But it 's great to generate
revenue out of OCP training...
Cheers
Nuno Souto
in sunny Sydney, Australia
dbvision@(protected)
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