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Re: Multiple databases managed by one instance

From: TurkBear <johng_at_mm.com>
Date: Thu, 28 Oct 1999 20:51:02 GMT
Message-ID: <3818b6aa.1122904@super.news-ituk.to>

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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