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How to find Oracle Hidden Parameters ?




By Vigyan Kaushik
May 09, 2003

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Note: This article was written for educational purpose only. Please refer to the related vendor documentation for detail.




How to find Oracle Hidden Parameters ?

Oracle has many hidden parameters. You will not find them in V$PARAMETER or see them with SHOW PARAMETERS command as these are hidden. All these parameter start with _ (Underscore). Like _system_trig_enabled.

These parameters are undocumented. You won’t find them in Oracle documentation. These parameters are for specific purpose only. Some of them are OS specific and used in unusual recovery situations. Some are also used to enable and disable new feature. You should be very much careful while using them. Please check with Oracle Support before using them.

Here is a query that you can use to find these parameters.

SELECT X.KSPPINM NAME, DECODE(BITAND(KSPPIFLG/256, 1), 1, 'TRUE', 'FALSE') SESMOD, DECODE( BITAND(KSPPIFLG/65536, 3), 1, 'IMMEDIATE', 2, 'DEFERRED', 3, 'IMMEDIATE', 'FALSE' ) SYSMOD, KSPPDESC DESCRIPTION FROM SYS.X_$KSPPI X WHERE X.INST_ID = USERENV('INSTANCE') AND TRANSLATE(KSPPINM,'_','#') LIKE '#%' ORDER BY 1 ; < /P >

 

 
About author:

Vigyan Kaushik is an Oracle certified professional serving IT industry for more than 11 years as an Oracle DBA and System Administrator. He has expertise in Database Designing, Administration, Networking, Tuning, Implementation, Maintenance with web deployment activities on different Unix flavors as well as on Windows Operating Systems.

 

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