Re: Control Files

From: Varad Acharya <vacharya_at_gw.ford.com>
Date: 1997/06/05
Message-ID: <3396CF07.1AA6@gw.ford.com>#1/1

craig walters wrote:
>
> Hi all,
> Is there a utility or way to see what the contents of the Oracle control
> file are? I can see a few things by opening a copy of a control file into
> wordpad, but because of the binary nature, I am not getting a complete
> picture. Any thoughts?
> Thanks,
> craig
> waltersc_at_mail.dec.com

Why would you want to do this anyway ?

You can dump the relevant portions of the control file (what is needed to recreate a damaged cfile ) by execute the following command

alter database backup controfile to trace. Received on Thu Jun 05 1997 - 00:00:00 CDT