Does anyone know how to see if an Oracle Server is up without establishing a
connection programmatically? I'm writing a C++ app that makes use of the
OCI; both OCI 7's orlon and OCI 8's OCIServerAttach establish a connection.
Establishing a connection takes too long. I basically want to do the
equivalent of a TNSPING80.exe and some call to check on the status of the
server. I've been told by Oracle that the only way to do this is with their
proprietary SQL* NET Dll's which they don't release a public interface for.
Any ideas on how to make sense of the SQL NET dlls interface or another
mechanism for doing what I want.
Thanks in advance,
Joel P. Garcia
Received on Wed Apr 28 1999 - 13:29:16 CDT
