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Understanding Installation Considerations
An Ingres Instance
An Ingres instance consists of a set of installed products that share a unique system-file location, ownership, and instance name, together with any data files created by these products.
Multiple copies of Ingres can be installed on a single server and run simultaneously. Each copy of Ingres is referred to as an Ingres instance.
An instance is classified as either a server installation or a client installation.
The default instance name is: Ingres II.
Last modified date: 01/30/2023