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How to manually modify DB initialization parameters by creating pfile from spfile

pfile is the initialization parameters of DB in plain text, while spfile is the binary one, so to be able to change it, you have to: Extract the pfile from the spfile: “create pfile=’my_path/file_name.ora‘ from spfile;” Shutdown the DB: “shutdown … Continue reading

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How to stop mysql from starting up automatically in Ubuntu Desktop

MySQL uses a different mechanism other than apache2, so you can simply comment the three lines inside “/etc/init/mysql.conf” Change this: start on (net-device-up and local-filesystems and runlevel [2345]) stop on runlevel [016] to this: #start on (net-device-up # and local-filesystems … Continue reading

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