where's my parameter files
lzhwxyNov 16 2004 — edited Nov 17 2004I have the oracle installed on Windows. If I use 'startup;' command to start the database without specifying a parameter file, is there a default pfile or spfile used to start it?
I noticed that on OEM, there are some parameters I can change, or I can use Alter system set... command to alter some parameters, but are those changes written to a parameter file?
If there is a default parameter files, where is it put? Under 'Oracle HOme\admin\myInstanceSID\pfile', I did find a parameter file, 'init.ora.982004131510', but it was not used for sure when I used 'startup;'.