Question on server and instance

Posted in 2000

Savio Mario Bartholomeo Pereira — Mon, 4 Sep 2000 16:27:43 +0530 — source: Informix-list mailing list archive (1991-1998)

Hi, What is the difference between Server and an instance ? Regs Rajesh

↪ replying to Savio Mario Bartholomeo Pereira

Madison Pruet — Tue, 05 Sep 2000 03:42:01 GMT — source: Informix-list mailing list archive (1991-1998)

A lot of folks prefer to use the word 'Server' for the computer that the database engine is running on and 'instance' for the database engine itself. Thus you can run multiple instances on a single server... Savio Mario Bartholomeo Pereira wrote: > Hi, > > What is the difference between Server and an instance ? > > Regs > Rajesh