Re: Confusion over username/password

From: Jozef Homola <jhomola_at_vsz.sk>
Date: 1997/11/27
Message-ID: <880617460.129307@intra>#1/1

>1. Why don't the examples in the Oracle documentation include a database
>alias?

???

>2. How does the software know which database you want to connect to?
An answer is in your third question.

>3. Is the username/password form (with no dbalias) only for use on the
>server system, and only when the ORACLE_SID env. variable is set to a
>particular instance?

Yes - on server. (default connect string is 2:$ORACLE_SID) On the client you can set parameter LOCAL. (win95/NT - under HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\ORACLE create string value LOCAL containing e.g. orcl.world)

>4. Is it safe to assume that anywhere in the documenation where Oracle
>specifies username/password I can safely use username/password_at_dbalias?
Yes.

J.H. Received on Thu Nov 27 1997 - 00:00:00 CST