Re: Antwort: ORA-12154

"Raymond Wong" <raymond.wong_at_hk.origin-it.com> wrote in message news:8ldte4$5sg2_at_imsp212.netvigator.com...
> Hi,
>
> First I need to thank you for your information. I can step one step forward
> now.
>
> I check my machine and got something called "Net 8 Configuration Assistance"
> and can be used to set up a listener. But I am very curious that the
> listener is set up without letting me specify the database.
>
> In the past, I worked with PROGRESS database (thank God, it's no more).
> PROGRESS database starts up a server for each database, and at the command
> of startup, one specifiy the host name and service name. Therefore it is
> very clear which database is using which host and service name.
>
> But with ORACLE, how can I distinguish service name between two databases,
> say, ORAPROD and ORATEST? When I set up the listening, it doesn't specify
> the name associate with any database name.

I don't know too much about this aspect of Oracle but I know our current setup at work has one TNS listener per machine, not per database.

-Matt Received on Mon Jul 24 2000 - 00:00:00 CEST