Re: Instance Name Limitation on Win NT?

From: Winnie Liu <winnie_liu_at_infonet.com>
Date: Fri, 8 Oct 1999 21:59:53 -0700
Message-ID: <7tmi4r$ddt$1@holly.prod.itd.earthlink.net>

The reason of this (up to 4 characters on NT) is that in the old dos version. There is a limitation of the length of the file name: which is 8 characters file name and 3 characters for extention. eg. 12345678.txt. Since the startup of oracle will require initSID.ora. That is why you can only create up to 4 characters on NT before. But I don't know if this is still the same way in Oracle 8!! I created an instance name with 7 characters on Oracle 8i on NT!!

Winnie Liu

Jimmy wrote in message <37FF07CE.7E9D9CF1_at_comp.polyu.edu.hk>...
>Hello all,
>
> I use Oracle 7.3.3 on Solaris 2.5 and create an instance called
>hello1. Now, I want to create the same instance on Win NT Server with
>Oracle 7.3.3. However, I cannot create the instance name with more than
>4 characters. Is this the limitation of Oracle 7.3.3 on Win NT? (How
>about Oracle 8) Is it possible to create an instance over 4 characters
>on Win NT (Oracle 7.3.3)?
>
>Thanks,
>Jimmy
>
Received on Fri Oct 08 1999 - 23:59:53 CDT