Re: Up and down sides of using HOSTNAME instead of tnsnames.ora for SqlNet connetion info

Gee I feel really dumb this morning...I certainly should have thought of that one myself..Thanks Stephen.. ( we often have 2 or 3 instances on one server)

"Steve Ashmore" <sashmore_at_neonramp.com> wrote:

>One 'down' of the top of my head would be if you ever wanted to
>run multiple instances on a server. Believe it or not we have one
>development server with 17 instances on it.
>
>Stephen C. Ashmore
>Brainbench MVP for Oracle Administration
>http://www.brainbench.com
>Author of: 'So You Want to be an Oracle DBA?'
>
>"TurkBear" <john.greco_at_dot.state.mn.us> wrote in message
>news:mgivuu4if2iur4jgeolb682mrp9d8nke08_at_4ax.com...
>> Or in addition to..
>>
>> I have heard that there are some issues with this method, but not what
>they may be..
>>
>> It would be easier to manage new instances if all we had to do was
>register them with an alias in our DNS server...
>> ( this will all be on our Intranet)
>> Opinions, please?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>
Received on Fri Dec 06 2002 - 09:08:40 CST