RE: Forms - as sysdba

One thing to bear in mind for forms development is Oracle does not support connecting as "/" (OPS$).

Suhen

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Sent: Friday, 22 August 2003 1:02 AM
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As this is Forms 6i, which was around long before "connect '/ as sysdba'" was required, Forms does not know about the new syntax.

Try checking on MetaLink for a patch.

Jared

On Thu, 2003-08-21 at 01:54, Robo wrote:
> Hi all,
> I have a 9.2.0.3 DB and I need to connect to Forms 6i as user sys. There
> are 3 boxes for username, password and database.
> I tried a lot of combinations, eg:
> Username: sys as sysdba
> Password: sys
> Database: db
> sys/sys_at_db as sysdba
> sys/sys_at_db /as sysdba
> sys/sys_at_db 'as sysdba'
> sys/sys_at_db '/as sysdba'
> But I always get an error message - either invalid username/password or
> TNS error (can't recognize the connect string).
> I have also tried it from command line but didn't succeed.
>
> Does anyone know if/how is it possible?
>
> Thanks a lot
> Robert Pipich
>
>

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