Hi there,

I have created a database (8.1.6) on WindowsNT, and I have BACKGROUND_DUMP_DEST set to c:\oracle\admin\vpdev\bdump in the initVPDEV.ora file.

However, there is no ALERT file there - Oracle does not seem to write one to this directory. Am i missing something that i need to set?

Please help - this has never happened before.

Thanks, KA