Re: brain dead

  • From: Jared Still <jkstill@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: tim@xxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2009 10:50:54 -0800

 On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 8:29 AM, Tim Gorman <tim@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>  Niall,
>
> As far as the SERVICE_NAMES parameter, I'm not sure why the document likes
> to identify each of the instances/nodes as separate services (i.e. CHICAGO1,
> CHICAGO2, BOSTON1, BOSTON2, etc).  Personally, I've always tended to match
> the SERVICE_NAMES to the DB_NAME, unless I'm trying to do something fancy
> like host multiple applications within ...
>

Jeremy Schneider has a good paper on the history and use of SERVICE_NAMES

http://www.ardentperf.com/pub/services-schneider07.pdf

Jared Still
Certifiable Oracle DBA and Part Time Perl Evangelist

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