I thought the suggestion was that whatever needs to be
communicated between instances be kept in the control file.
Not that ALL parameters should end up in the control file?
Cheers
Nuno Souto
in sunny Sydney, Australia
dbvision_at_optusnet.com.au
----- Original Message -----
From: "Daniel Fink" <Daniel.Fink_at_Sun.COM>
> Ah, the chicken or the egg...
>
> Control files are identified by the parameter (spfile/init.ora) file. If
you
> kept the parameters in the control file, how would the database know which
> control files to read? And if a control file was lost? How would you edit
the
> control file to change the parameter to point to a different control file?
>
> Sounds like a catch-42.
>
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