From: Andy Hardy <aph@ahardy.demon.co.uk>
Subject: Re: Designer/2000 - Reverse Engineer db problem
Date: 1997/09/09
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In article <5ukldn$bjn$1@news01.btx.dtag.de>, Jochen Guther
<Jochen.Guther@t-online.de> writes
>
>Looks to me as if you don't have permission to create a database link
>in your DES2K account. What it does during reverse engineering is that
>it creates a database link from the database where the repository
>resides to the database which you want to reverse engineer.
>
>I have also seen problems when a database link with the same name
>already existed.
>
>Try to log into your DES2K account from sql*plus and create a database
>link to the target database and schema. After you get this running,
>reverse engineeering should work, too.
Jochen,

Thanks for the suggestion.

I've tried creating database links and get no errors. However, when I
attempt to use the link I get a TNS-12203 error.

So, it looks like it may be a SQL*net problem?

Andy
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