Thank you very much Dennis and Dick for your info.
wow!! These days I am learning lot. Thanks for my friend Ravi Kiran
who suggested me to join this group..
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Dennis,
Allow me to add
Dennis,
Allow me to add another item to the pile from the OLD days. Back in SQL*Net
V1 it was recommended to select a database name/SID that was "case insensitive".
That restriction/recommendation was due to older DOS based clients that handled
all of that sort of data as upper case. Theref
Banarasi - Worse than that, Oracle used to recommend that you use no more
than 4 characters (look at your process names, and imagine if your O.S. only
allowed 8 characters for the name). The problem is that some, mostly older,
computer systems have severe filesystem and process name limitations. I
Hi All
Why name of the Database is restricted to 8 bytes. where as we can have long
names for tablespaces, tables, views, etc ?
thanks
Banarasi Babu
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