Re: SID Naming Conventions?

In article <332FE7CC.50B3_at_bv.com> "Craig J. Fischer" <fischercj_at_bv.com> writes:
>What are some conventions for naming SIDs? I'm a DBA for a couple
>different Oracle installations, and whatever conventions have been used
>in the past (by me and by others) are becoming useless.
>
>Some specific questions I have are:
>1) Is there any reason to stick to 4-character SID names for databases
>that won't end up on anything less than Unix or NT platforms?

Because you can't say that you will _never_ access them from any other platforms?

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