I have never worked at a site that did not have multiple instances on the
same box. The statement not to do that is so outlandish the person who made
it probably meant something else. Maybe he meant to say you should usually
not have development, test and production instances of the same database on
the same box.
"John Guthrie" <john_at_guthrie.co.za> wrote in message
news:b7luoq$1uot5$1_at_ID-156817.news.dfncis.de...
> I know it is possible to have multiple instances running on the same box
> but:
>
> Can someone tell me if their is an official line that says Oracle does NOT
> recommend running multiple instances on the same box.
>
> AND
>
> Can someone tell me if running multiple instances on the same box is ever
> used in 'the real world'?
>
> The reason for the questions above is that we have made a request to run 2
> instances on the same box and this request was denied saying that Oracle
do
> not recommend running more than 1 instance on the same box and that this
is
> not done in 'the real world'. (the box which we will be using is more than
> capable of handling 2 instances - spec in this case is not the issue.)
>
>
Received on Sat Apr 19 2003 - 13:57:12 CDT
