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Adrian Shepherd wrote in message <66k4qt$eaq_at_argon.btinternet.com>...
>There is no difference between a SID and an Instance name, There is a
>difference between the SID/Instance name and the database name though,
>imagine a cluster (in the old VMS days) when each node/machine had its own
>instance and they all opened the same DB in parallel mode. instance1 ,
>instance2 , instance3 , instance 4 were all different names, but all opened
>the same DBNAME, There are ways of changing the DB name if you want to.
>
> I call mine Fred.
<everyone> HI FRED! Received on Wed Dec 10 1997 - 00:00:00 CST
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