Re: 9i on Windows 2000 Server Workgroup

"fu manchu" <leondobr_at_verizon.net> wrote in message news:ltccd0ptnfeq0uda8lf1kv71mfpcj0ea74_at_4ax.com...
> On Mon, 21 Jun 2004 05:23:39 +1000, "Howard J. Rogers"
> <hjr_at_dizwell.com> wrote:
>
> Fair enough. But I'd still say that Oracle could have been clearer.
> Sure, name.domain is clear when you have a domain, but what does it
> mean when you have a workgroup, not a domain? That was the whole
> point, I think.
>

You do what I've done for years, and what's documented at www.dizwell.com, to mention just one place, and invent a domain. For a long time, I created databases called "win92.local.com" or just "lx92.local". One person of my acquaintence has always done "db1.no.domain".

Bear in mind, the word "domain" has a perfectly valid meaning outside of a specifically Windows networking environment (and indeed pre-dates its use by Windows). So that even in a non-Domain Controller Windows environment, you still have a "domain" in the sense of a 'community' or set of computers, and a database that serves that community can therefore still make reference to that 'community' name.

I agree with you that the DBCA screen could be improved a bit, by saying that's it's actually OK to make up a domain name.

Regards
HJR Received on Sun Jun 20 2004 - 20:50:39 CDT