Best method for silent-auto DBCA : response file OR dbca scripts ?

As far as I discovered there are 2 alternatives on creating silently a Database
1. Generate scripts from DBCA itself at end and run the batch - even if you have to make some modification to pass dynamically the DB Name or other parameters eachtime
2. Execute a dbca response file
What are the differences ?
Which is the best (more reliable) ?
Windows 7 11.2g EE
Thank you

Those scripts are definitely much slower than directly running the dbca binary. dbca has its own way of specifying all the required parameters as command line arguments directly without any response files.
If you're relying on response files, you need extra programming effect to fill all the required entries in them based upon the environment and user's input and chances of introducing vulnerability is a bit higher as commands like sed/awk etc you use to fill the response files may behave weirdly sometimes (i'm not saying this happens always but there's a chance).
If you're giving everything inline as an argument,and you can use environment variables etc.. as arguments..so less chances of missing something
You can check the dbca documentation if it supports much more arguments..i listed whatever i used. And I'm not sure if response files support more arguments than this (i think this has covered pretty much all important ones).
If you want to do instance level parameter changes, you can always do them after creating the database (of course you can automate that by putting a sample init file with all required changes like SGA size wtc.. and restart the instance with that file...everything automated and executed in a flow after the initial db creation).
CSM

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