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Home -> Community -> Mailing Lists -> Oracle-L -> Re: Init.ora and Config.ora
I always thought it was for separating instance-specific parameters from database-specific parameters in an OPS environment. At least, that's one place where it is very useful to have separate files. Of course, it was a matter of style whether "config.ora" was the database-level one or vice-versa...
Also, somewhere back in the mists of time, any ".ora" file for initialization parameters had to be less than 10,000 characters in size; anything beyond that boundary was simply not used (I kid you not!). So, having multiple files related by "ifile=" was the workaround, especially for those neurotic souls who insisted on leaving comments for documentation...
Beware...DBA heresy below...
I am in the process of cleaining up parameter files and wonder why we still maintain an init.ora and config.ora. The original rational was that one contained the database configuration/creation parameters while the other was used for tuning.
Is there a good reason why we have 2 files instead of a single file?
Daniel W. Fink
Sr. Oracle DBA
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