RE: ok for the last 18 yrs in using oracle I must have been asleep, "implied database link"
Date: Thu, 18 Feb 2010 09:57:07 -0500
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A developer pointed this out to me recently and I had no idea that this could be done. It works when global_name are set to FALSE and (of course) the passwords must be the same in both databases.
Jeremy
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Subject: RE: ok for the last 18 yrs in using oracle I must have been asleep, "implied database link"
I can't test it for the moment, but could it be that the parameter global_names has to be set to TRUE?
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Subject: RE : ok for the last 18 yrs in using oracle I must have been asleep, "implied database link"
Hi,
Are you sure it exists ? I've made tests and it does not work at least in 10.2.0.3.
sqlplus system/pass_at_db1
SQL*Plus: Release 10.2.0.3.0 - Production on Thu Feb 18 15:16:38 2010
Copyright (c) 1982, 2006, Oracle. All Rights Reserved.
Connected to:
Oracle Database 10g Enterprise Edition Release 10.2.0.3.0 - 64bit Production
With the Partitioning, OLAP and Data Mining options
SQL> SELECT * FROM DBA_USERS_at_db2;
SELECT * FROM DBA_USERS_at_db2
*
ERROR at line 1:
ORA-02019: connection description for remote database not found
sqlplus system/pass_at_db2
SQL*Plus: Release 10.2.0.3.0 - Production on Thu Feb 18 15:16:38 2010
Copyright (c) 1982, 2006, Oracle. All Rights Reserved.
Connected to:
Oracle Database 10g Enterprise Edition Release 10.2.0.3.0 - 64bit Production
With the Partitioning, OLAP and Data Mining options
I've even verified in the documentation and I haven't found trace of it.
Best regards,
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In my mind, if someone is doing such things in code, this is probably a bad practice. Also I'm not sure it's a great idea from a security point-of-view to allow such things. Anyone else have any thoughts here?
RF
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Subject: ok for the last 18 yrs in using oracle I must have been asleep, "implied database link"
Ok so a co-worker asks a question about an implied database link, i'm like "huh".
so a database link is NOT created in the source database but the userid/password are the same in both source and destination.
take for example
system on db1 and db2 has a password of x12345.
I do a select count(*) from dba_users_at_db2 while connected on db1 and it connects and returns a result set w/o a db link being created.
I've been enlightened again of something new about oracle.
so the question posed is, for a named db link you do "close" it, how do you close an implied link?
joe
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