Re: What Instance means ?

From: Van Messner <vmessner_at_netaxis.com>
Date: Wed, 24 Feb 1999 17:50:39 -0500
Message-ID: <Tr%A2.90$mM2.2606@news14.ispnews.com>

An Oracle instance is a system global area or SGA (an area of memory used for database information shared by database users) AND a set of background processes such as SMON, DBWR etc. An instance is not a database although you often see people referring to the two things as if they were the same

Van

Renaud Harduin wrote in message <7b1pgm$2h7u$1_at_buggy.easynet.fr>...
>Hello, i'm working on Oracle under an unix system. It's new for me and a
lot
>of people talk about "instance". What is it ?
>
>Renaud Harduin
>FRANCE
>
>
Received on Wed Feb 24 1999 - 16:50:39 CST