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Connor McDonald

Thanks for the question, Oliver.

Asked: January 19, 2025 - 10:24 am UTC

Last updated: January 24, 2025 - 8:00 am UTC

Version: 19c

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In 11g RAC, the init.ora file points the spfile in ASM, so sqlplus can find it.

but in 19c, sqlplus can startup even without the spfile nor init.ora,

how does that happen?

(I understand when I startup with svrctl , it will create a init.ora automatically)

Thank you.

and Connor said...

It is stored in CRS, eg

crsctl stat res ora.asm -p | egrep "ASM_DISKSTRING|SPFILE"
SPFILE=+DATA/ASM/ASMPARAMETERFILE/....

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