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Why?
What advantage do you hope to achieve ?
As an Informix user, you may be confusing database with tables or schemas....
Let us know more...
Wes Gamble <weyus_at_worldnet.att.net> wrote:
>Hi there.
>
>Being an Informix person, it's taken me a while to get used to the
>common idea that one instance = one database under normal Oracle usage.
>But I would like to buck this trend. I'd like to have one instance
>manage more than one database. How do I go about doing that? It
>appears that the init.ora files are database - specific - do I simply
>specify the same instance name in two different init.ora files?
>
>Anyone have any advice on what's a reasonable number of databases to
>allow to be managed by one instance?
>
>Thanks,
>Wes Gamble
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