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On Tue, 13 Jul 2004 13:51:18 -0500, Turkbear <john.g_at_dot.spamfree.com>
wrote:
>pelekhl_at_msn.com (lev) wrote:
>
>>Hello,
>>
>>Is it possible to programmatically determine the connect descriptor
>>for an Oracle database without having to parse the tsnnames.ora file?
>>Any info is highly appreciated. Thank you.
>>
>>Lev
>
>I expect not...Where would it look?
>
>There are other methods ( Oracle Names, LDAP etc) for obtaining the info, but , AFAIK, there is no 'unconfigured' discovery
>of Oracle instances..
>
>hth,
Actually there is: it is called the hostname method.
-- Sybrand Bakker, Senior Oracle DBAReceived on Tue Jul 13 2004 - 15:57:26 CDT