Re: What does TNS stand for?

From: Hans Forbrich <forbrich_at_telusplanet.net>
Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2003 22:13:41 GMT
Message-ID: <3EF8CB82.BC2BD9D5@telusplanet.net>

Dave Hau wrote:

> Transparent Network Substrate. It's Oracle's version of a network
> protocol stack that sort of maps to the 7 layers in the OCI model.

To supplement this answer - it was created in the days when there were many different protocols competing with TCP/IP. Oracle's answer was to create a SQL interconnect stack that was 'transparent' to all the different protocols.

A major innovation from Oracle was the protocol interchange gateways so a request made by an AppleTalk client could thread through the gateway and land on an Oracle database running in a Banyan-Vines environment. Although moderately commonplace now, this was very impressive in those days! Received on Tue Jun 24 2003 - 17:13:41 CDT