Whatever you do make sure the global_name are unique among the
replicated nodes. That was in fact lesson #1 in a replication training
I took some years ago.
calberto2312_at_hotmail.com (Carlos Alberto) wrote in message news:<72954535.0210171101.3ea86a13_at_posting.google.com>...
> Hi all,
>
> I need to replicate to setup a read-only snapshot, with just one
> table. To do this, I have two databases with the same name, the same
> domain, and by default the same global_name parameter. To setup
> replication, I need to set global_names=true in init.ora, which
> implies that a public synonym must have the same name of the database
> it will connect to. Using Replication Manager, there´s a point in
> which it tries to create a public database link to access the remote
> site, and then I´m receiving the error :
>
> ORA-02082 a loopback database link must have a connection qualifier
>
> Well, this behaviour was expected because of this environment. I
> thought about two solutions to this :
>
> 1 - Rename database global name at one site
>
> 2 - Create the public database link using a connection qualifier (as
> it is in the Oracle Documentation).
>
> My question is : which of these are correct? Or both? Do I need to
> do anything else regarding database links or not? In the second
> solution, this connection qualifier can be anything, like '@xxx' or it
> must be configured somewhere? I´m using Oracle 8.1.7.
>
> Thanks in advanced,
> Carlos
Received on Fri Oct 18 2002 - 02:50:31 CDT
