RE: service name, sid ..

[Goulet, Dick]

AK,       Let me put it this way, from our own configurations:       Specs.world is an alias(service name)  for database (instance name/db name) BART3 which resides on host BART in SID 03.       Does that help??   Dick Goulet Senior Oracle DBA Oracle Certified 8i DBA -----Original Message----- From: AK [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, July 02, 2003 2:49 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Subject: service name, sid .. I am reading oracle network admin guide and getting confused abt service name, instance name , db name , sid ..   why service name is not same as db name . Earlier service name and sid used to be same thing .. isn't it ( ? ) .   Can some one clarify with some examples .   TIA -ak