it isn't binary on solaris ... pure text ...
Raj
-----Original Message-----
From: Pardee, Roy E [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, July 16, 2003 6:40 PM
To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
Subject: Why are SPFILEs binary anyway? (was RE: How to make SPFILE in
sync with INIT.ORA ?)
I can definitely appreciate the benefits of dynamic parameters, and of being able to persist the values of those parameters accross shutdown/startup cycles. But I would have guessed that oracle could have gotten both of those features together without going to a binary parameter file--couldn't whatever process writes to the spfile just write to a plain text file instead? Does anybody know what the advantage of having a binary store of params is?
Cheers,
-Roy
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