RE: Oracle Names

Dennis,

ok then go ahead and make yourself 100% Certified DBA. I believe your next exam will be not that difficult. We all learned about Oracle Names in more detail.

Regards
Rafiq

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Jared, Brad, Jacques, Stephen, Thomas, Jose, Richard, Rich, Mladen, Ravi, John, Gene, Dick, and anyone I left out. Thanks very much for sharing the information on not only Oracle Names but the other alternatives. You have given me a gold mine of information to approach this issue. This list is WONDERFUL!! Thanks everyone.

   Even if we choose not to implement Names, it will give me some incentive to study those chapters for the OCP Net Administration module, which is the only one I have left.
Dennis Williams
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Lifetouch, Inc.
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To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Re pushing the tnsnames.ora out to desktops:

I considered that, but there were too many versions of it out there, and the users may have ODBC DSN' s dependent on the contents of their tnsnames.ora.
Re the share drive: Considered that too, but it's too easy for net admins to re-arrange drives without advance warning. ( it has happened )
I compromised. The tnsnames.ora stays on the desktops.

The sqlnet.ora has this line:

NAMES.DIRECTORY_PATH = (ONAMES, TNSNAMES) so that their tnsnames will still work, but I can make changes in the name servers without worrying about their tnsnames files. Updating the names servers is pretty simple, and I don't have to schedule a change to all the desktops. Works for me anyway.

Jared

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I never liked names, but that's just me. I thought keeping the names servers up to date, and making sure every client was configured to use the name servers, was a pain in the butt. You can have multiple names servers to eliminate a single point of failure.
The method I liked the best was to have the PC admin people push a new tnsnames.ora out to client machines using push software. Let THEM fuss with
it!
Another method that works is to have the tnsnames.ora on a share and stick a
shortcut on the client desktop that will update the local tnsnames.ora when
the user clicks on it.
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>
> 1. Are any of you using the Oracle Names?
> 2. Is it as easy to configure as Oracle makes it sound, or is
> it difficult?
> 3. Is Names reasonably robust? I can see this as yet another
> single point of
> failure.

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