RE : ok for the last 18 yrs in using oracle I must have been asleep, "implied database link"
Date: Thu, 18 Feb 2010 15:20:10 +0100
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Hi,
Are you sure it exists ? I've made tests and it does not work at least in 10.2.0.3. sqlplus system/pass_at_db1
SQL*Plus: Release 10.2.0.3.0 - Production on Thu Feb 18 15:16:38 2010
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Connected to:
Oracle Database 10g Enterprise Edition Release 10.2.0.3.0 - 64bit Production
With the Partitioning, OLAP and Data Mining options
SQL> SELECT * FROM DBA_USERS_at_db2;
SELECT * FROM DBA_USERS_at_db2
*
ERROR at line 1:
ORA-02019: connection description for remote database not found
sqlplus system/pass_at_db2
SQL*Plus: Release 10.2.0.3.0 - Production on Thu Feb 18 15:16:38 2010
Copyright (c) 1982, 2006, Oracle. All Rights Reserved.
Connected to:
Oracle Database 10g Enterprise Edition Release 10.2.0.3.0 - 64bit Production
With the Partitioning, OLAP and Data Mining options
I've even verified in the documentation and I haven't found trace of it.
Best regards,
De : oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org [oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org] de la part de Robert Freeman [robertgfreeman_at_yahoo.com] Date d'envoi : jeudi 18 février 2010 00:54 À : TESTAJ3_at_nationwide.com; oracle-l_at_freelists.org Objet : Re: ok for the last 18 yrs in using oracle I must have been asleep, "implied database link"
In my mind, if someone is doing such things in code, this is probably a bad practice. Also I'm not sure it's a great idea from a security point-of-view to allow such things. Anyone else have any thoughts here?
RF
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Subject: ok for the last 18 yrs in using oracle I must have been asleep, "implied database link"
Ok so a co-worker asks a question about an implied database link, i'm like "huh".
so a database link is NOT created in the source database but the userid/password are the same in both source and destination.
take for example
system on db1 and db2 has a password of x12345.
I do a select count(*) from dba_users_at_db2 while connected on db1 and it connects and returns a result set w/o a db link being created.
I've been enlightened again of something new about oracle.
so the question posed is, for a named db link you do "close" it, how do you close an implied link?
joe
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