Re: Q: Why is 7.3.2.2 forcing 4 character SID limit???

gsa_at_li.net (Gary Assa) wrote:

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>when trying to create a 7.3.2.2 database. Well, it turns out that if I
>change my ORACLE_SID to 'tst2' instead of 'test02', I do not get the
>error. I know Oracle suggests a 4 character limit on the SID, but we have
>5 or so databases, and there is no way would would change our SIDs to
>a 4 character limit.

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Gary,

Humble newbie answering what might be a profound question, but we have managed to get a sid of test732 on out 7.3.2.2 dbase running on HP-UX 10.20, so I'm pretty sure it _can_ be done. Received on Wed Dec 18 1996 - 00:00:00 CST