RE: Duplicate DBIDs

I am running 8.1.7.4.

The DBID is not an issue for my rman backups since I am using the individual database control files to store the backup metadata. (Yes, I do backup my control files.)

thanks,
Peter Schauss

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From: Nick Tilbury @ Northampton [mailto:ntilbury_at_vartec.co.uk] Sent: Wednesday, January 26, 2005 11:32 AM To: rlsmith_at_kmg.com; Schauss, Peter; Oracle-L (E-mail) Subject: RE: Duplicate DBIDs

We also had a similar issue. Which version of Oracle are you on ? Renaming the database will not change it's DBID, but it can be done by = executing a procedure
(the name of which escapes me for now).
8i databases having the same DBID did cause us some problems. However = since upgrading to
9i, using RMAN duplicate database feature (which does change the DBID) = we have had no problems.

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[mailto:oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org]On Behalf Of Smith, Ron L. Sent: 26 January 2005 16:23
To: peter.schauss_at_ngc.com; Oracle-L (E-mail) Subject: RE: Duplicate DBIDs

You are already going through the edit on the controlfile. Why not just rename the database at the same time?
If not someone will surely mess up your production database, thinking they are connected to the test version.

Ron

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[mailto:oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org] On Behalf Of Schauss, Peter Sent: Wednesday, January 26, 2005 10:12 AM To: Oracle-L (E-mail)
Subject: Duplicate DBIDs

We have had a practice at our site of creating development and staging databases by copying a cold backup to another system. We then edit the output from "backup controlfile to trace" to rename the =3D3D

database and relocate the data files and restart the database with the resulting script. This means that a number of our databases, mostly on different machines, have the same DBID. So far this has not caused us any problems. Are we running any risks here?

Thanks,
Peter Schauss

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