>> I'm currently in the process of putting together a standards document >> for Oracle databases and am including a passage stating that databases >> shall have meaningful names relating to their purpose. >Consider a database hosting 3 different unrelated applicatons. >What would be a meaningful name for that database? Hodgepodge? Jumble? Medley? Mishmash? :) >Meaningful names can also be considered a security risk... Yep! -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l