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Home -> Community -> Usenet -> c.d.o.server -> Re: Q: Length of SID name on Unix systems
You may want to consider living with a four character limitation. I have installed at least one third-party package (an HR app, I believe) that required a SID of four or less characters.
The Kid wrote:
> It looks like the ORACLE_SID is limited to 4 characters. Is that
> true? That seems REALLY short, especially since we are going to have
> a number of instances running.
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