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ORA-12505 when connecting to new instance [message #161893] Tue, 07 March 2006 14:41 Go to next message
nmacdannald
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The database is running, the listener is running. The tnsnames.ora file on the server and on my xp box look okay.

Why would I get:

ORA-12505 TNS:listener does not currently know of SID given in connect descriptor

What is up?

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Re: ORA-12505 when connecting to new instance [message #161897 is a reply to message #161893] Tue, 07 March 2006 15:44 Go to previous message
nmacdannald
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I had a stray line of code in the listener.ora file. It is fixed now!
Neil.

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