You might want to add the following at the end of your cloning process. 'alter database rename global_name to new_name.domain_name;' (SELECT * FROM GLOBAL_NAME; to see the current value.) Regards, Nelson Petersen -----Original Message----- From: Ganesh Raja [mailto:ganesh.raja@xxxxxxxxx] Sent: Thursday, September 23, 2004 7:00 PM To: bspears@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Cc: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: Cloning gurus. All the datafiles also have a DBID on them that gets Reset when the Controlfile is Recreated with set Database Name Call. HTH Cheers Ganesh R On Thu, 23 Sep 2004 16:46:42 -0400, Spears, Brian <bspears@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I checked and only the controlfiles have the db name... And I am guessing > these get the newnames on the new clone? > > Brian > > > > > -- > //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l > -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l