Re: Oracle 7.3.2.2 HPUX Installation: Domain?

From: Lashbrook <lashbrook_at_bigfoot.com>
Date: 1997/08/08
Message-ID: <01bca3b7$deedcb80$468ddccf@pebbles>#1/1

SQL-NET version 1.x will verify the database is up, but you needed to have a valid Oracle username/password. It was changed in SQL-NET version 2.x to only check listener, thus making it easier to test basic Oracle network communication (like TCP/IP ping command).

BRAJB <brajb_at_aol.com> wrote in article
<19970807035500.XAA21176_at_ladder01.news.aol.com>...
> tnsping will only verify the listener is up on the target machine. It
> will not verify that the database is up and running.
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Received on Fri Aug 08 1997 - 00:00:00 CDT