Database server options

In addition to any server options that have been documented in the New Features section, the following new server options have been added:

  • -cm server option   This server option allows you to specify the amount of address space allocated for Address Windowing Extensions (AWE) on Windows. See -cm server option.

  • -dh server option   This server option makes a database undetectable when the Server Enumeration utility (dblocate) is run against the server. See -dh database option.

  • -dt server option   This server option allows you to specify the directory where temporary files are stored. This option cannot be specified for database servers using shared memory connections on Unix. See -dt server option.

  • -gtc server option   This option lets you control the number of threads that can run concurrently on a CPU. See -gtc server option.

  • -ot server option   When you specify this server option, the database server message log file is truncated before any messages are written to it. See -ot server option.

  • -su server option   This option lets you specify the password for the DBA user when connecting to the utility database. You should use -su instead of the util_db.ini file. See -su server option.

  • -zp server option   When you specify this server option, the query optimization plan that was most recently used is stored for each connection. See -zp server option.