Oratab is the table of ORACLE_SID and corresponding ORACLE_HOME.

Whenever you set environment, I mean 'coraenv' or 'oraenv' it reads thru this table and picks the sid and its home.

Usually,this is used frequently for automating the database maintenance on this server, as its having the all the databases on the server.

This z all I know...

Note: Read the posting 'environment variable issue' also


[Edited by sreddy on 12-31-2000 at 01:57 PM]