Patent 7305395 was granted and assigned to Oracle on December, 2007 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
Techniques for the centralized storage and management of parameters for databases are provided. Configuration parameters for instances of a database server can be stored centrally and associated with the appropriate instance. Additionally, configuration parameters that are modified during run time of the instance can be stored so that subsequent instances can be initialized using those configuration parameters, which can result in new instances that are tuned for the environment.