How To Choose Your Oracle Database ID (DBID)
Posted by Grégory Guillou on Feb 18, 2009
You can choose a DBID when you rename your Oracle database. This is probably a bad, unsupported, and useless idea. I assume this hidden feature can help you to mess up all your backups. So my advice would be: “don’t use it.”
I performed this test with Oracle 11.1.0.7 on Linux x86. It consists in using dbms_backup_restore instead of nid to rename the database. You’ll find below the few steps require to get to it.
