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JEDIDIAH wrote:
>> I should have been clearer. You can but there are many reasons why
>> you should not. You just hit one very important one. The other
>> reason is that if the init.ora files are different, and Murphy's
>> Law clearly indicates this will happen sooner or later, you would
>> have different instances with different parameters: A very bad idea.
> > Using spfiles isn't going to change that. > > pfiles and spfiles are completely interchangeable with respect > to how dbca handles this consistency issue.
If one wishes to do stupid things nothing can stop them. Oracle's recommendation, though, is clearly spfiles.
-- Daniel A. Morgan University of Washington damorgan_at_x.washington.edu (replace x with u to respond) Puget Sound Oracle Users Group www.psoug.orgReceived on Thu May 11 2006 - 14:12:16 CDT