RE: Why are SPFILEs binary anyway? (was RE: How to make SPFILE in sync with INIT.ORA ?)

2003-07-17 Thread Turner, Adrian A SITI-ITPSIE
Roy, I imagine its so that it can only be changed by someone who is validated against the database with the correct permissions. Kind Regards, Adrian -Original Message- Sent: 16 July 2003 23:40 To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L sync with INIT.ORA ?) I can definitely appreciate

Why are SPFILEs binary anyway? (was RE: How to make SPFILE in sync with INIT.ORA ?)

2003-07-16 Thread Pardee, Roy E
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