Re: Please Help (Grovel, Grovel) about linknames

From: Gary Waldrom <garyw_at_levelv.co.uk>
Date: 1997/07/16
Message-ID: <33CCF35B.AF94A9DA@levelv.co.uk>#1/1

David Steele wrote:

> Hello all those out there in computer world
>
> I only have only a small query, but I would be eternally grateful if
> one
> of you extremely kind people could clarify a term
>
> When creating a DATABASE LINK using
>
> CREATE PUBLIC DATABASE LINK linkname
>
> How is the linkname made up so I can connect to my remote database
>
>

CREATE DATABASE LINK linkname                                    #any
name you wish to identify the linkCONNECT TO user_name IDENTIFIED BY
password         # If it different from the initiating database else

leave this line out
USING
connect_string
# As defined in your tnsnames.ora file Received on Wed Jul 16 1997 - 00:00:00 CDT