Operating System Dependencies

Initialization Parameters
Database Limits
SQL Scripts

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Initialization Parameters

About OS-Dependent Parameters 1 - 6

AUTO_MOUNTING parameter 1 - 9

BACKGROUND_DUMP_DEST parameter 1 - 9

COMMIT_POINT_STRENGTH parameter 1 - 11

DB_BLOCK_SIZE parameter 1 - 16

DB_FILES parameter 1 - 18

DB_FILE_SIMULTANEOUS_WRITES parameter 1 - 18

DISTRIBUTED_TRANSACTIONS parameter 1 - 22

Global Constants (GC_) 1 - 5

LOG_ARCHIVE_BUFFER_SIZE parameter 1 - 35

LOG_ARCHIVE_BUFFERS parameter 1 - 35

LOG_BUFFER parameter 1 - 38

LOG_CHECKPOINT_INTERVAL parameter 1 - 38

LOG_SMALL_ENTRY_MAX_SIZE parameter 1 - 41

MTS_LISTENER_ADDRESS parameter 1 - 45

MTS_MAX_DISPATCHERS parameter 1 - 45

MTS_MAX_SERVERS parameter 1 - 45

NLS_LANG parameter 4 - 6

NLS_LANGUAGE parameter 1 - 49, 4 - 11, 4 - 12

NLS_SORT parameter 1 - 50, 4 - 19

NLS_TERRITORY parameter 1 - 51, 4 - 12

OS_AUTHENT_PREFIX parameter 1 - 55

PROCESSES parameter 1 - 58

SORT_AREA_SIZE parameter 1 - 65

SORT_SPACEMAP_SIZE parameter 1 - 67

TEMPORARY_TABLE_LOCK parameter 1 - 69

TRANSACTIONS_PER_ROLLBACK_SEGMENT parameter 1 - 70

USER_DUMP_DEST parameter 1 - 71

Database Limits

For database functions and objects 5 - 2

SQL Scripts

Operating system specific names of SQL scripts 6 - 2

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