Oracle9i and Oracle8i database instances are identified by the INSTANCE_NAME parameter in the initialization parameter file. INSTANCE_NAME corresponds to the Oracle System Identifier (SID) of the instance. Clients can connect to a specific instance by specifying the INSTANCE_NAME parameter in the connect descriptor.
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