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I think that 'ALTER DATABASE ..................' affects the physicalcharacteristics of an instance and the 'ALTER SYSTEM ....' affects the behavioral characteristics. Ehhh ???
> could be but i've not had the luxury of OPS :(
>
> joe
> sean.hull_at_pobox.com wrote:
> >
> > On Fri, 9 Jun 2000, Joseph S. Testa wrote:
> >
> > > why does there have to be a alter system AND an alter database?????)
> >
> > Joe:
> >
> > Doesn't this become apparent in an OPS environment where system refers to
> > your particular instance, and database refers to the one single database?
> > I may be wrong, but that was always my intuitive understanding.
> >
> > Sean
>
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Received on Sat Jun 10 2000 - 16:28:27 CDT
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