Help: Designer/2000 connection problem

[Quoted]
From: Caobin Zhu <caobinz_at_flash.net>
Date: Mon, 12 Apr 1999 02:05:08 GMT
Message-ID: <37114db6.18461976_at_news.flash.net>



[Quoted] Hi, everyone,

[Quoted]         Please help me to make the connection from design/2000 2.1. to an oracle database.

        I am using oracle 8.0.4. After I installed design/2000 and made a database connection string (des2000 with repos as username and password for the database sid=d703) using net8 easy config, I can connect to the database from sql*plus 8. However I can not connect from designer/2000. Then I made another connection string (des2k) using sql net easy config for the same database (d703). I can not connect from designer or sql*plus 3.3 either. The error message is ORA-12505: TNS: listener could not resolve SID given in connect descriptor. I checked the services from NT server control panel. The database d703 shows status "started".

I also checked the file tnsnames.ora under the network subdir. The following is part of that file:
des2000.world =
  (DESCRIPTION =
    (ADDRESS_LIST =

        (ADDRESS = 

(COMMUNITY = tcp.world)
(PROTOCOL = TCP)
(Host = CHINESESTAR)
(Port = 1521)
) (ADDRESS =
(COMMUNITY = tcp.world)
(PROTOCOL = TCP)
(Host = CHINESESTAR)
(Port = 1526)
)

    )
    (CONNECT_DATA = (SID = D703)
    )
  )

What should I do to make this connection? First of all, I should use net8 easy config or sql net easy config? What is the trick? Any help would be greatly appreciated!
Please help! TIA.
You can e-mail the solution to me if you want to: caobin_at_flash.net Received on Mon Apr 12 1999 - 04:05:08 CEST

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