Message-Id: <10524.108551@fatcity.com> From: sean.hull@pobox.com Date: Sat, 10 Jun 2000 14:52:41 -0400 (EDT) Subject: Re: METALINK and OWS On Fri, 9 Jun 2000, Joseph S. Testa wrote: > why does there have to be a alter system AND an alter database?????) Joe: Doesn't this become apparent in an OPS environment where system refers to your particular instance, and database refers to the one single database? I may be wrong, but that was always my intuitive understanding.