Simply speaking, consider SID to be the name for the various background process (DBWR, LGWR, et all) and the memory structures (SGA, PGA). A SID needs to be associated with a database, which would be the DB_NAME. The SID and DB_NAME need not be the same. They have to be different in an Oracle Parallel Server environment, where you can have two SID's say ORA1 and ORA2 associated with the same database, say ORA.
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I know this novice question for dba's but just wanted to refresh this ,
what is difference between SID and DATABASE_NAME , why init.ora file
shouldhave database name same as SID and in what circumstances SID and
DB_NAME can be different .
TIA
oramagic
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