On 5/10/05, stephen booth <stephenbooth.uk@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > 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. Why is that better than meaningless names? Consider a database hosting 3 different unrelated applicatons. What would be a meaningful name for that database? Meaningful names can also be considered a security risk, just as they are with servers. Ours are named tsxx, prxx, dvxx and qaxx, where x is a digit. -- Jared Still Certifiable Oracle DBA and Part Time Perl Evangelist -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l