What is the difference between an Oracle Schema and an
Oracle Instance?

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What is the difference between an Oracle Schema and an Oracle Instance?..

Answer / vishal

for simplicity, Instance is the name of the Database.
Schema is the owner of your objects(tables, indexes, views,
synonyms,etc).

In you example, you have a Database Instance named
CONTRACT.

In your Contract database, you have 2 Schemas named LEGAL &
RI

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What is the difference between an Oracle Schema and an Oracle Instance?..

Answer / saiprasannach89

A user in oracle database is called as schema.Objects created by user is called schema objects.

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What is the difference between an Oracle Schema and an Oracle Instance?..

Answer / udayah shankar dokku

oracle schema: generally it is static,having tablr
name,column name & associated datatypes
oracle instance : generelly it is dynamic,at ay instance of
time the collection of all records is called oracle instance

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