Re: ORACLE_SID - how many characters?

In article 29221_at_metagen.co.uk, sjs_at_metagen.co.uk ( Simon Stearn BT group) writes:
-->In article <19940321.064641.996_at_almaden.ibm.com>, alanb_at_vnet.IBM.COM (Alan Beal) writes:
-->|> I have seen some Oracle manuals state that ORACLE_SID must be 4
-->|> characters or less. But it appears that it can be longer. What
-->|> exactly is the maximum length for ORACLE_SID on UNIX systems?
-->|>
-->|> Alan Beal alanb_at_vnet.ibm.com
-->|> (607)751-2026
-->ORACLE_SID is an environment variable - it can be as long as a long thing. The
-->thing is, Oracle only looks at the first 4 characters.

Not True. We have multiple instances called PROJECT1 , PROJECT2 ...PROJECT5

If Oracle only looked at the first 4 chars then we'd have problems with these, and we don't have problems , so you're statement is inaccurate.

8 characters is the max for Unix AFAIK

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