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connect remote database without providing SID [message #450210]

Mon, 05 April 2010 14:12

awesome75
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Hi
i need to connect to a remote database located on a different server using sqlplus without using database name in connect string.

e.g. if mydb1 (located on another database server on network)

sqlplus username/password

is it possible? i am able to do this on local database but not on the remote database

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Re: connect remote database without providing SID [message #450214 is a reply to message #450210]

Mon, 05 April 2010 14:18

BlackSwan
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>is it possible?
NO

sqlplus username/password@TNS_alias

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Re: connect remote database without providing SID [message #450215 is a reply to message #450210]

Mon, 05 April 2010 14:18

Michel Cadot
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Yes you can connect, just read the documentation:
SQL*Plus® User's Guide and Reference

Regards
Michel

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Re: connect remote database without providing SID [message #450217 is a reply to message #450215]

Mon, 05 April 2010 14:24

BlackSwan
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OK, I had forgotten about TWO_TASK
I'm getting old & senile.

When you get older, the memory is the 2nd faculty that fails & I don't remember which is the 1st

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Re: connect remote database without providing SID [message #450218 is a reply to message #450217]

Mon, 05 April 2010 14:36

Michel Cadot
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You can also use Easy Connect Naming

Regards
Michel

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Re: connect remote database without providing SID [message #450220 is a reply to message #450210]

Mon, 05 April 2010 14:37

Michel Cadot
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2 useful topics in AskTom:
How to connect SQLPlus without tnsnames.ora
TWO_TASK environment variable on windows

Regards
Michel

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Re: connect remote database without providing SID [message #450221 is a reply to message #450218]

Mon, 05 April 2010 14:40

BlackSwan
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Michel Cadot wrote on Mon, 05 April 2010 12:36

Easy Connect Naming

Did Easy Connect exist for V8.0.5?

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Re: connect remote database without providing SID [message #450259 is a reply to message #450221]

Tue, 06 April 2010 01:16

Michel Cadot
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Doh! didn't see the version.
Of course, it doesn't, was introduced in 10.1

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Michel

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