Copy and Paste

I bounced into a funny thing when I setup a Data Guard Physical Standby Database.

First I prepared some database init parameters in a document (actually I reused some old documentation I had done in a previous project).

log_archive_dest_1

location=use_db_recovery_file_dest valid_for=(all_logfiles,all_roles) db_unique_name=osbsoadb

The "alter system ..." command worked like a charm.

During the preparations I needed to restart the database instance. To my surprise I received an error that there was an issue with an init parameter.

ORA-16024: parameter LOG_ARCHIVE_DEST_1 cannot be parsed

Google did not really help me. So I decided to create a pfile from the spfile and had a look into it.

There it became evident what the error was. Somehow during the copy & paste the end-of-lines were copied as well - leaving my init parameter with some newlines in it.

Made one line from it in the pfile, started the db and created a new spfile. Now it worked like a charm.