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SID and DB_NAME - the relationship?

OracleGuy777Nov 26 2008 — edited Nov 26 2008

(Oracle 9.2)

hi guys,

I am reading the Oracle documentation , and it says regarding creating a database:

*% setenv ORACLE_SID mynewdb*

The value of the DB_NAME initialization parameter should match the SID setting.

Now I am confused as to why this should be the case. After all, many SIDs can be connected to one database.

thanks

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