I should have known that Mladen would catch me on that one...
Yes, ALTER SYSTEM.
But I can still ALTER SYSTEM a hundred databases faster then you can VI their pfiles.
(psssssttt)
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[mailto:oracle-l-bounce@(protected)]On Behalf Of Mladen Gogala
Sent: Friday, February 20, 2004 9:30 AM
To: oracle-l@(protected)
Subject: Re: Shooting yourself in the spfile
On 02/20/2004 09:18:03 AM, "Grabowy, Chris " wrote:
> IMHO, if I have to make a change to a database, I want to do it from
> within the database not from the OS.
The problem is editing. It 's still much faster to use "vi ", or "emacs "
for heathens, then to modify parameters from sqlplus.
> We have a couple hundred
> databases, to manually update pfiles takes forever and is error prone,
> but running a bunch of ALTER DATABASE commands is quick/easy. YMMV.
Alter database? Chris, I have bad news for you: "alter database " will modify
your database, while "alter system " can be used to modify your spfile. What
do you want to modify? Where do you want to go today?
>
> (slithering back into my lurker corner)
You can slither, but you can 't hide.
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