Instances are identified by an instance name, sales and finance in this example. The instance name is specified by the INSTANCE_NAME initialization parameter. The instance name defaults to the Oracle system identifier (SID) of the database instance.
实例用instance name来区分,通过初始化参数instance_name来指定
默认情况下,instance_name 和SID相同。
一下是dataguard的特例情况,用db_unique_name 来唯一区分实例。
SQL> show parameter instance_name
NAME TYPE VALUE
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instance_name string sales
SQL> show parameter db_un
NAME TYPE VALUE
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db_unique_name string dupdb