Yres it is normal. The environment variable ORACLE_SID will enable this
connection.
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Niall Litchfield
Oracle DBA
Audit Commission UK
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"Nicolas Bronke" <bronke_at_gmx.net> wrote in message
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> Something is wondering me (but perhaps it is normal)
>
> I have on several machines a oracle database (nothing special - all under
> Win2000). I also stopped any unnecessary services. Now I found out, that I
> am able to connect to the primary instance without any entries in
> TNSNAMES.ORA on my client machine. And the next point, the connect (or
> TNSPING) runs much faster if I do not have this TNS-Entry.
>
> Is that normal?
>
> And if yes is it possible to connect via BDE to an Oracle database without
> an TNS-Entry?
>
> Thanks in advance
>
> Nicolas
>
>
Received on Tue Feb 05 2002 - 09:50:12 CST
