Setting ORACLE_SID With ENV Variables

  • From: Dave Morgan <oracle@xxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: Oracle-L <oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2014 06:16:05 -0600

Hello All,
        I am having a problem setting ORACLE_SID using env variables.
For example, in a bash script:

export SS_DB=ABCDB
export TT_DB=DEFDB

export ORACLE_SID=$SS_DB

sqlplus fails with Oracle not available, no shared memory. However,
echo $ORACLE_SID returns ABCDB.

If I then set ORACLE_SID directly:

export ORACLE_SID=ABCDB

sqlplus works fine

What am I missing?

TIA
Dave

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