1. Real Application Clusters Installation Guide
  2. Creating Oracle RAC or Oracle RAC One Node Databases with DBCA
  3. Tasks to Complete Before Using DBCA to Create any Oracle RAC Database
  4. Decide on a Naming Convention to Use for Your Oracle RAC Database

Decide on a Naming Convention to Use for Your Oracle RAC Database

Review this information for naming conventions for Oracle RAC database.

The global database name can be up to 30 characters in length, and must begin with an alphabetic character. The domain portion of the global database name can be no more than 128 characters and can contain only alphabetic and numeric characters, and the period (.) character.

The maximum number of characters you can use for the SID prefix is 8 characters. DBCA uses the SID prefix to generate a unique value for the variable ORACLE_SID for each instance. The SID prefix must begin with an alphabetic character.

Parent topic: Tasks to Complete Before Using DBCA to Create any Oracle RAC Database