Re: Can't connect internal

AFAIK Internal only connects on the machine which hosts the SID. On a client you will have to use sys as sysdba (internal is just a pseudonym for sys).

Hth,

Ted

>On Thu, 1 Mar 2001 16:16:34 +0200, "The Digital Wizard" <lintaka_at_best.co.za>
>wrote:
>
>>Hi all oracle wizards, I am a newbie oracle dba, and I would like to know if
>>anyone knows how to connect internal thru sqlplus 8 for Oracle 8.1.7 on
>>windows nt workstation I've tried but I keep getting and error see the
>>following
>>ERROR:
>>ORA-12203: TNS:unable to connect to destination
>>
>>Please advise, I'll be much obliged.
>>
>
>A customer of us had the same problem today. I could not solve it but
>connecting through sqlsvrl worked fine.
>After starting the database, it was possible to connect through sqlplus as
>another user.
>
>Joachim Verhagen.
>
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EMail: knijff_at_bigfoot.com Received on Thu Mar 01 2001 - 14:36:23 CST