Comments on: Oracle pfile and spfile for parameters

By: dg

dg — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 23:48:48 +0000

Mucho thanks, I’m a new-be to Oracle and the explaintion and examples are great!.

By: uglyhunk

uglyhunk — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 04:28:58 +0000

Thanks a lot for the explanation…

By: sinyor

sinyor — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 08:42:23 +0000

Hi
Thanks a lot. for you kindness.

By: Jason

Jason — Sat, 14 Jun 2008 08:56:02 +0000

Good article – precise and succinct.

By: Jon Emmons

Jon Emmons — Wed, 07 May 2008 03:15:49 +0000

Carrie,

My first thought is to check permissions on the file and directory. Also make sure your init file is named with the format initSID.ora where SID is your instance name. The instance name will be case sensitive in UNIX/Linux, so keep that in mind.

Hopefully that will get you through. If you can give a little more detail I can try to help more.

Good luck.

By: carrie

carrie — Tue, 06 May 2008 22:44:13 +0000

Hello

Please can you help, I have exactly the same problem detailed above, but I opened the spfile and now it will not work when I try to re-create it I get the following: ORA-27041 unable to open file?

Please help

By: agnes

agnes — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 05:14:33 +0000

yey! thanks a lot!

By: Alejandro

Alejandro — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 16:21:52 +0000

Thank you, this article was a lifesaver !

Damn text editor + spfiles

By: vk

vk — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 22:10:19 +0000

sweet god, you just saved my ass
cheers

By: Jon Emmons

Jon Emmons — Mon, 05 Mar 2007 22:00:57 +0000

You can actually name a pfile whatever you want (within the restrictions of your operating system) or even keep it in another location on the system, but be warned: if the pfile is not in the standard location with the standard name you will have to tell Oracle where to find it every time you start up the instance.

The file is only read at startup so after that it does not matter where it is.

If you want to you can link the file to another location on the system but this can cause confusion if you’re not careful.

Hope this helps.