init file ???

From: Leslie Lu <leslie_y_lu_at_yahoo.com>
Date: Thu, 11 Apr 2002 14:33:30 -0800
Message-ID: <F001.004429BD.20020411143330@fatcity.com>

Hi,

I'm using 9.0.1 on win2000. When a database is created using configuration assistant, two init files are created: one in ORA_HOME/database, and the other in ORA_HOME/admin/SID/pfile. Here are my questions:

1. what's the difference between these two, why created two copies.
2. the one in ORA_HOME/database has strange format ef: *.variable=value, why?
3. how to find out which init file the db is using, assuming the db cannot be mounted. I got a problem that the alert.log keeps telling me the control file cannot be found.

ORA-00202: controlfile:
'c:\ora_9i\oradata\small\datafile\small.ctl' (I didn't specify this path in both init file, where did Oracle get this directory???)

O/S-Error: (OS 2) The system cannot find the file specified.

Since db is not mounted yet, I cannot use show parameter pfile. So how do I know which init file Oracle is reading?

Thank you!

Leslie

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