Re: Oracle 8 DB link to Oracle 7.3.4

From: fumi <fumi__at_tpts5.seed.net.tw>
Date: Sun, 17 Jan 1999 22:34:31 +0800
Message-ID: <77v679$2s2$4@news.seed.net.tw>

Russ Frier ¼¶¼g©ó¤å³¹ <369F4335.7D9F34A4_at_scad.edu>...
>I have a puzzling situation. In an Oracle 8 database, I create a db link
>to an oracle 7 database. I know that this oracle 7 database is up and
>reachable from the same machine that the oracle 8 database is running on
>(via sqlplus,svrmgrl). However, when I create the link and attempt to
>use it, I get the message:
>'ORA-12154: TNS:could not resolve service name'. Any ideas?
>Russ

If you use Windows, you'd better to keep the contents of NETWORK\ADMIN\TNSNAMES.ORA and NET80\ADMIN\TNSMANES.ORA to be the same.

Hope this helps. Received on Sun Jan 17 1999 - 08:34:31 CST