Re: PFILE from SPFILE

From: Yavor Ivanov <Yavor_Ivanov_at_stemo.bg>
Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2005 14:23:36 +0300
Message-ID: <op.syse9maatjan04@theshire>

"*." comes for "all instances". It is used by RAC databases, where you have more than 1 instance per database.

I haven't seen this "?", but it sounds like "?"=$oracle_base$

	Rgds,
	yavor

On Mon, 17 Oct 2005 14:12:39 +0300, DBA Deepak <oracle.tutorials_at_gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi All,
> When I created a pfile from spfile the pfile has lines like the
> following....
> *.background_dump_dest='?\admin\
> I have a few doubts regarding that.
> 1> Why **.* is there before each line.
> 2> Why the locations of the dumps as well as the control files have
> *?\*prefixed.
> 3> Even when i use sho parameter control_file it shows the ?
> Please help me in understanding the above.
>
> --
> Regards,
>
> Deepak
> Oracle DBA

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