Global Names

From: Chris <me_at_nospam.com>
Date: Fri, 09 Mar 2001 05:23:18 GMT
Message-ID: <aNZp6.22191$V6.86623@news1.gvcl1.bc.home.com>

I just received this month's edition of Oracle Magazine. There's an article on database links where it mentions that Oracle recommends setting the global names parameter to true, thus forcing the database link to be identical to the global name of the remote database. It didn't mention why. I'd heard this before but I don't see any benefits. In fact there is a disadvantage in that this scheme will never allow you to create more than one link between a pair of databases.

Does anyone know of any problems caused by setting global names to false?

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Chris

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Received on Thu Mar 08 2001 - 23:23:18 CST