Restrictions for Applications and Databases

When naming an application, follow these rules:

• Use no more than eight characters for an application's name.

• Do not use spaces.

• Do not use these special characters:

  • asterisks

  • backslashes

  • brackets

  • colons

  • commas

  • equal signs

  • greater than signs

  • less than signs

  • periods

  • plus signs

  • question marks

  • quotation marks (double and single)

  • semicolons

  • slashes

  • tabs

  • vertical bars

• For application names in relational database environments, do not use extended characters (except for underscores).

• For aggregate storage databases, do not use DEFAULT, LOG, METADATA, or TEMP as application names.

Enter names in the preferred case. Application names are created exactly as entered.

For detailed information on creating Oracle Essbase applications and databases, see the Essbase product documentation.