Can we determine path of my INIT.ORA file from data dictionary views.

Hello Guru’s
I am new to oracle, My question is for the sake of my knowledge: I work on oracle 10G.
Is there any data dictionary view from where I can get the path of my INIT.ORA file.
Regards,

NewDay wrote:
Hello Guru’s
I am new to oracle, My question is for the sake of my knowledge: I work on oracle 10G.
Is there any data dictionary view from where I can get the path of my INIT.ORA file.
AFAIK , its no. You can check the path from the show parameter command like following,
SQL> show parameter spfile
NAME TYPE
VALUE
spfile string
/u01/app/oracle/product/10.2.0
/db_1/dbs/spfileorcl.ora
SQL>HTH
Aman....

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(c) Copyright 2000 Oracle Corporation. All rights reserved.
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Does the below two statements means the same?No.
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