RE: Oracle Names

From: Goulet, Dick <DGoulet_at_vicr.com>
Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2003 12:22:10 -0700
Message-ID: <F001.005B0906.20030612115457@fatcity.com>

Dennis,

We use Names here, best thing since sliced bread for replacing tnsnames. We have 5 name servers, 2 in each building in our Andover campuses (for fail over) and 1 in our Westcoast facility (they have only one server to run it on & use one of ours as a fall back). Net Assist especially the one that comes with 9i OEM is very easy to use. Ask Oracle & it takes 2 weeks of consulting time to get setup. Ask MetaLink, it has a white paper on setting up the service & it should take you a couple of hours depending on the size of your Oracle environment.

Dick Goulet
Senior Oracle DBA
Oracle Certified 8i DBA

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We are starting a project that will eventually have 500 laptops wandering around in the wild. These will have an Access database for untethered use, and will periodically connect to Oracle via Net8 to resynchronize itself. The idea of changing 500 tnsnames.ora files sometime down the line is daunting. I've been studying for the OCP Net8 exam, and they mention Oracle Names.

Are any of you using the Oracle Names?
Is it as easy to configure as Oracle makes it sound, or is it difficult?
Is Names reasonably robust? I can see this as yet another single point of failure.
Oracle hinted that Oracle Names is going away in favor of LDAP. Is this imminent, or just a scare tactic? I had held off using Names because of this, but the company has made a commitment to MS Active Directory, which I gather from the list postings isn't very compatible with Oracle's LDAP.

Dennis Williams
DBA, 80%OCP, 100% DBA
Lifetouch, Inc.
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