Question about BEQ/IPC

I was told that if you run sqlplus from the server where the database resides, you don't need a listener process running. This will use BEQ. However, if you do have a listener running, with parameters for IPC, then you will use IPC.

My question is, why would you use IPC? If I have user workstations that use TCP/IP, then all I should need is a listener with parameters set up to listen for TCP traffic. Any server activity can use BEQ. I wouldn't even need to set the listener up for IPC.

There must be some advantage of IPC over BEQ. Could anybody shed some light on this?

-Keith Received on Tue Jun 15 1999 - 08:34:12 CDT