Re: Where does DBCA get its list of databases?

From: hpuxrac <johnbhurley_at_sbcglobal.net>
Date: 16 Mar 2007 05:24:58 -0700
Message-ID: <1174047897.981704.34620@l75g2000hse.googlegroups.com>

On Mar 16, 8:20 am, "Andy Kent" <andykent.bristol1..._at_virgin.net> wrote:
> I've inherited a 10g system on Linux in which various test and
> migration databases have come and gone. When I go into DBCA to
> configure options, the list of databases does not reflect the ones
> that I've been told are still supposed to be around. Our tnsnames.ora
> is up to date, i.e. it only lists the databases that are currently in
> use. Where does DBCA look to make its list?
>
> Thanks
>
> Andy

Well it's from oratab on hpux the file is /etc/oratab may differ on various unix/linux platforms.

Tnsnames is used for connection information not anything to do with what databases are installed/startup automatically etc locally. Received on Fri Mar 16 2007 - 07:24:58 CDT