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Re: Q: Length of SID name on Unix systems

From: Stephen Cheung <stephenc_at_cs.utexas.edu>
Date: 1997/10/05
Message-ID: <6189t9$itg$1@buttons.cs.utexas.edu>#1/1

: The Kid wrote:

: > It looks like the ORACLE_SID is limited to 4 characters. Is that
: > true? That seems REALLY short, especially since we are going to have
: > a number of instances running.

Well, how many instances do you need to start up, anyways?

A 4-character SID _still_ gives you quite a good number of combinations. I can't see anyone running out of unique combinations in the immediate future.

                        stephen.

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Received on Sun Oct 05 1997 - 00:00:00 CDT

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