Re: ORACLE_SID - how many characters?

In article 996_at_almaden.ibm.com, alanb_at_vnet.IBM.COM (Alan Beal) writes:
-->I have seen some Oracle manuals state that ORACLE_SID must be 4
-->characters or less. But it appears that it can be longer. What
-->exactly is the maximum length for ORACLE_SID on UNIX systems?

I believe it is 8 , as we certainly have instances with names that long. (I could be wrong tho')

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