Re: Recreating the controlefile with x$ tables

For my standby failover demo, I used perl to munge the trace controlfile. I would rely on the trace controlfile instead of trying to generate one yourself, because you never know in which version x$ tables are going to change.

Take a look at the subroutine called
"mangle_and_move_trace_controlfile()" at:

http://www.speakeasy.org/~jwilton/standby-failover

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On Fri, 13 Jul 2001, [iso-8859-1] paquette stephane wrote:



> I'll have to transfer a db between servers

> automatically.

>

> When doing it manually , I just do an alter database

> backup controlfile to trace, edit the trace file and

> change what I want.

>

> Now, let say I want to generate myself the create

> controlfile trace file. All the information is in the

> data dictionnary but in obscur table like

> x$kccdi.dimlm for the maxlogmembers parameter of

> create controlfile.

>

> I was wandering if others were doing it this way or

> using sed or awk (I know none of them) to do changes

> to the trace file.


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