Re: Dictionary location or initSID.ora and PWDsid.ora

D'oh! I forgot about those.

Getting them out of the registry is another problem.

Do you know Perl? Use Win32::TieRegistry.

Jared

On Thursday 23 January 2003 21:43, Naveen Nahata wrote:
> There are avaialable in the registry with String values
>
> 'ORA_SID_PFILE' and 'ORA_SID_PWFILE'
>
> From this you can find out the directory of the Password file
>
> Regards
> Naveen
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> These aren't available dynamically, and are not available
> from the registry, at least I can't find them there.
>
> No need to hard code: just setup a conguration file for your
> script to use, that includes these locations.
>
> Jared
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> "Bob Metelsky" <bmetelsky_at_cps92.com>
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> Subject: Dictionary location or initSID.ora and PWDsid.ora
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>
> Can I dynamicall find the location of initSID.ora
> Eg C:\admin\INSTANCE\PFILE\initSID.ora
> and the password dir
> E.g C:\Oracle\Ora81\DATABASE\*.ora
>
> Im setting up a cold backup script and would like to include these 2 dir
>
> Im poking around in the v$ tables but cant seem to find it
> Id like to avoid hardcoding the values
>
> Thanks!!
> bob

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