what's my DB name?

Hi,  

I've a fundamental question. If I am connecting to a remote server in Oracle 8i as a non-DBA user then how can I find out the actual name of database?  

Few options that I already know are:  

• viewing init.ora file: not applicable in my case as I am connecting to remote server
• i have following info: username, pwd and hoststring..... problem with me is that there may be 'n' no. of users connecting to same db, so i can not interpret dbname by username. Further, normally hoststring is of the format dbName.hostName but this is no compulsion, so I am not sure whether this will be database name or not?
• using query: select value from v$parameter where name = 'db_name'; but this query is of no use if I don't have privilege to view any system table........

So, is there any other way? Please do tell....  

Regards,
Anand Received on Fri Sep 27 2002 - 15:27:13 CEST