RE: Any way to 'truncate' the control file?

Hello Zhong,

The cause of the growth may be that your control_file_record_keep_time parameter is still defaulting to 7 days, and that there was a 7 day period in which you archived a lot of log files. If you want to avoid such controlfile growth, then that parameter must be set to 0.

You cannot shrink the current controlfile, but you can create a new one using the create controlfile command. Consult the documentation for details.

Regards,
Steve Adams

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-----Original Message-----
From: root_at_fatcity.com [mailto:root_at_fatcity.com]On Behalf Of Zhong Hong Sent: Wednesday, 2 August 2000 9:56
To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Subject: Any way to 'truncate' the control file?

My contril file is about 39MB for a 150GB Database. Anybody knows what could
cause that and how to reduce the size?

TIA,
Zhong
It's another beautiful day!

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