RE: where's the NT pfile?

2001-05-03 Thread Hillman, Alex
By default it is in $ORACLE_HOME/database in Oracle 8.0 Alex Hillman -Original Message- [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, May 03, 2001 7:16 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Try looking in the registry. Since you're using oradim80 I take it you're using 8.0.x which

RE: where's the NT pfile?

2001-05-03 Thread Reardon, Bruce (CALBBAY)
Try looking in the registry. Since you're using oradim80 I take it you're using 8.0.x which I can't give the exact answer for. But, for 816 look at HKLM\software\orace\all_homes to find the home id number for your home - say it is 5. Then look at HKLM\software\orace\home5 and you will find a ke

RE: where's the NT pfile?

2001-05-03 Thread Henry Poras
Thanks. I know those are the defaults, but when you create the Oracle service on NT using oradim80, you can flag a specific pfile. This information is obviously stored in the service as it is used each time the service starts. Is there a way to find if the stored value is different from the defaul

Re: where's the NT pfile?

2001-05-03 Thread Rodd Holman
Henry, If your database is up and running all ready you can do the following query to find the pfile. select name, value from v$parameter where name like 'ifile'; Rodd >> Original Message << On 5/3/01, 1:20:59 PM, Henry Poras <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote regarding

RE: where's the NT pfile?

2001-05-03 Thread Kevin Kostyszyn
Actually that seems to be a file that points to the file in the pfile directory, the password file is also located here. If you want to know what pfile is associated with what db you can just open it up, not to mention that it will be uder the directory with the same name as the DB. Kev -Ori

RE: where's the NT pfile?

2001-05-03 Thread Frank N. Pettinato
8.1.7 should be in the \oracle\ora81\database directory 8.0.X should be in the \orant\database directory HTH, Frank Pettinato Oracle DBA -Original Message- Sent: Thursday, May 03, 2001 11:21 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L I've got an easy one. I'm getting back to NT and I a

Re: where's the NT pfile?

2001-05-03 Thread Brijesh Lal
The init.ora file is in oracle/admin/sid/pfile/init.ora --- Henry Poras <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've got an easy one. I'm getting back to NT and I > am trying to find what > parameter file was used when creating the Oracle > service with oradim. I know > I can edit the setting to any init.or