Path: dp-news.maxwell.syr.edu!spool.maxwell.syr.edu!drn.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!postnews.google.com!g43g2000cwa.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail From: "Mark D Powell" Newsgroups: comp.databases.oracle.server Subject: Re: multiple instances databases issue Date: 8 Aug 2005 07:08:39 -0700 Organization: http://groups.google.com Lines: 12 Message-ID: <1123510118.989232.28760@g43g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> References: <1123472864.955487.87810@g14g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 192.85.50.1 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" X-Trace: posting.google.com 1123510123 4920 127.0.0.1 (8 Aug 2005 14:08:43 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 8 Aug 2005 14:08:43 +0000 (UTC) In-Reply-To: User-Agent: G2/0.2 Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: g43g2000cwa.googlegroups.com; posting-host=192.85.50.1; posting-account=J7QqBQwAAABTieek3RP_669Gs2iATWzr Xref: dp-news.maxwell.syr.edu comp.databases.oracle.server:249099 YLS177, Sybrand has provided the correct relationship information for databases to instances. What might be of interest to you based on your post is that yes you can install one copy of Oracle, that is, one set of Oracle binaries, and run several database instances on one server using the same set of binaries. But each instance would access its own database. See the DBA Administration manual chapter on creating an Oracle database. HTH -- Mark D Powel --