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Changing the global name of a database

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Changing the global name of a database - Amazon Relational Database Service

To change the global name of a database, use the Amazon RDS procedure rdsadmin.rdsadmin_util.rename_global_name. The rename_global_name procedure has the following parameters.

Parameter name Data type Default Required Description

p_new_global_name

varchar2

Yes

The new global name for the database.

The database must be open for the name change to occur. For more information about changing the global name of a database, see ALTER DATABASE in the Oracle documentation.

The following example changes the global name of a database to new_global_name.

EXEC rdsadmin.rdsadmin_util.rename_global_name(p_new_global_name => 'new_global_name');
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