RE: Can you create a database link back to same database?

Make an entry in your tnsnames.ora like the one below:

DBSID_LOOP = (DESCRIPTION=(ADDRESS=(PROTOCOL=tcp)(PORT=1601)

                (HOST=127.0.0.1))(CONNECT_DATA=(SID=DBSID)))

Then create your db link with: using 'DBSID_LOOP';

It should work, this is on HPUX, Oracle 7.3.4.

Scott Shafer
San Antonio, TX
210-581-6217

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Shaw, John B [SMTP:jbshaw_at_ingr.com]
> Sent: Friday, April 20, 2001 3:52 PM
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> Subject: Can you create a database link back to same database?
>
> Can you create a database link back to same database?
> I have a product that uses database links to create a copy of the
> database,
> the users now want to copy it back to another schema on the same instance.
> I get ORA-02019: connection description for remote database not found
> or ORA-2082
> Either I'm missing something in my syntax or this can't work - which is
> it?
>
> SQL> create database link fr.is.inr.com_at_toad connect to test identified by
> test using
> 2 'fr.is.inr.com';
>
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