Month: June 2016

What is SID in Oracle ?

In the doc you’ll find, it’s the Oracle system identifier. Okay, let’s imagine the following Environment: ORACLE_SID=ORA001 init.ora: DB_NAME=DB001 DB_UNIQUE_NAME=UNI001 INSTANCE_NAME=INS001 SERVICE_NAMES=SVC001,SVC002 DB_DOMAIN=EXAMPLE.COM GLOBAL_NAMES=false database: SQL> select * from GLOBAL_NAME; GLO001.example.com listener.ora: SID_LIST_LISTENER = (SID_LIST = (SID_DESC = (GLOBAL_NAME=GLO001.EXAMPLE.COM) (SID_NAME=ORA001) ) ) What is my SID? Actually there is more than one correct answer. In […]