Let’s take a look at one of my early articles in the IOUG Tip Booklet. It is still relevant today…
In Oracle 9i, the spfile was introduced as a new method to store the initialization parameters. The use of the spfile helped to simplify the remote startup of a database and added options for the busy DBA. In this article, we will look at the spfile and how it is managed on UNIX/Linux and Windows.