Re: How to identify the 'current' instance

In article <53u9au$i7d_at_gw.PacBell.COM>, j4xprel_at_pbsrv10.isp.pacbell.com wrote:
>running under hp-ux, after exporting ORACLE_SID=TST, TWO_TASK=DEV and
>then logging on to sql*plus with 'sqlplus user_id_at_T:host_name:PRD' is
>there any way to query the correct current instance?
>
>thanks in advance.
>

select global_name from global_name;

This will report back the global_name of the current database.

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