Re: Problem with Database Link

Can you connect to the remote database using sqlplus username/password_at_LINKNAME on the server where you are creating the db link?

  If you can try creating the db link with the full connect string in the using parameter

  Example

  Create database link LINKNAME
  connect to username identified by password   using' (DESCRIPTION =(ADDRESS_LIST =(ADDRESS = (PROTOCOL = TCP)(HOST = 10.54.100.231)(PORT = 1521)))(CONNECT_DATA = (SERVICE_NAME= LINKNAME)))' in other words insert the DESCRIPTION portion of the tnsnames file in the using...

bob

Rakesh Banerjee wrote:

> Hi Friends,
>
> I am facing a problem in operating with database link.
>
> One of the machine has Personal Oracle 8i installed. In the same
> machine the client of Oracle Enterprise 8i is also installed, whose
> server is installed on the Database server machine.
>
> Now in the client machine, TNSNAMES.ORA files of both the enterprise
> client and that of personal is having the same entry of host string,
> i.e. the host name version is same for both the versions.
>
> A Database link is created from the personal oracle for the oracle
> enterprise.
>
> Now when the select statement is fired from Personal Oracle 8i
> fetching data from Oracle enterprise using the database link, it is
> giving TNS ERROR specifying OPERATION TIME OUT.
>
> Can anybody help in solving the problem? Thanks in advance.
>
> Rakesh
>
> amtrix Infosystems Ltd.
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