Psuedo SIDs is this possible (help)

Im am currently about to run two databases one production other development
the production one will be superceded by the dev one can i rename the production one to something else and rename the dev one to the production one.

Reason is client server pc installation have a path to the production db name db_prod1 and this is on a raw partion the dev one db_dev1 is a file system is there a way to fix the SID conflict with regards to the dev database

Thanks

                Raymie
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