Oracle-L: RE: Init.ora and Config.ora

From: Fink, Dan <Dan.Fink_at_mdx.com>
Date: Thu, 13 Jun 2002 16:28:42 -0800
Message-ID: <F001.0047D9CD.20020613162842@fatcity.com>

I agree about OPS/RAC distinctions. I wonder if that was the original justification that then took hold elsewhere.

I distinctly remember a few days at a certain unamed media outlet that were spent trying to figure out why rollback segments weren't coming online...

Daniel W. Fink
Sr. Oracle DBA
MICROMEDEX
303.486.6456

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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...

Original Message ----- To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L <mailto:ORACLE-L_at_fatcity.com> Sent: Thursday, June 13, 2002 10:48 AM

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
MICROMEDEX
303.486.6456

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