Re: What does TNS stand for?

From: Dave Hau <davehau_nospam_123_at_nospam_netscape.net>
Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2003 22:30:59 GMT
Message-ID: <3EF8D122.8030406@nospam_netscape.net>

Interesting.

How does it work? Does the Oracle database running in Banyan-Vines need to have a listener that supports the Appletalk protocol to talk to the client?

• Dave

Hans Forbrich wrote:
> 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 - 17:30:59 CDT