Re: local naming vs directory naming

From: Yong Huang <yong321_at_yahoo.com>
Date: Fri, 9 May 2008 09:28:31 -0700 (PDT)
Message-ID: <901010.36662.qm@web80608.mail.mud.yahoo.com>


> From: "Rich Jesse" <rjoralist_at_society.servebeer.com>
>
> In addition to "standard" Oracle backups and OID replication, I found it
> very helpful to do regular LDAP-based backups (e.g. using ldapsearch to a
> text file). It made the recovery plan for human-based fcrew ups *much*
> simpler!

Speaking of LDAP-based backup, I have a Perl script to convert it to tnsnames.ora:
http://yong321.freeshell.org/oranotes/Ldap2Tnsnames.txt

Some people use OpenLDAP to provide Oracle naming resolution. It works and is much lighter-weight. I wish Oracle supported it. OID is over-engineered. I can't find the step-by-step procedure. I once followed it and it worked. Now I only find:
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.databases.oracle.server/browse_frm/thread/2de8c209ea06d4e7 http://www.orafaq.com/maillist/oracle-l/2003/12/08/0607.htm

Yong Huang



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