Re: For Daniel Morgan
Date: Thu, 08 May 2003 14:25:40 -0700
Message-ID: <3EBACB54.EB4935DC_at_exxesolutions.com>
Joel Garry wrote:
> Daniel Morgan <damorgan_at_exxesolutions.com> wrote in message news:<3EB91453.9BD363A6_at_exxesolutions.com>...
> > LouisD wrote:
> >
> > > <snipped>
> > >
> > >
> > > So what I really need advise on is how do I set up the puers so that the
> > > computers on the network conect to the on edbase where the
> > > tables/entities/attributes are located.
> > >
> > > You have helped me before for which a thousand thanks.
> > >
> > > Thanks
> >
> > On the client machine, go to the \net80\admin directory and insert an entry into
> > tnsnames.ora that points to the server. It will just be the following for 8i.
> >
> > <database_alias> =
> > (DESCRIPTION =
> > (ADDRESS_LIST =
> > (ADDRESS = (PROTOCOL = TCP)(HOST = <host_name>)(PORT = 1521))
> > )
> > (CONNECT_DATA =
> > (SID = <sid_name>)
> > )
> > )
> >
> > The database_alias can be anything you want
> > The host is the name or IP address of the server
> > The sid name is the instance name you are connect to
> >
> > BTW: We do not have any lab at UW for students to use with Oracle. All students
> > have their own copy of the database, etc. on their own machines which provides
> > them with not only far more flexibility but far more experience. They get to
> > install, configure, destroy, and have full SYS privileges to explore at a level
> > impossible with a shared server.
>
> When do they learn how to work within a team? That's often been a
> very time-consuming issue for me in groups larger than 1. And even
> single programmer environments, as the programmer changes over time
> (just yesterday I encountered a situation where one person out of
> several didn't understand the concept of layering, so interleaved his
> custom code with the vendors' base code - and a few days ago found the
> same thing from someone who should know better). But the larger the
> environment, the more critical it is. This is definitely too
> important to be left to MBA graduate classes or project management
> certs, it should be integral with any professional programming
> curricula (even creative art programming).
>
> >
> > I hope the above helps.
>
> jg
> --
> _at_home.com is bogus.
> "A hypothetical strangelet disaster could transform the entire planet
> Earth into an inert sphere about one hundred meters across." - Sir
> Martin Rees
I agree. But it is not more important than competence.
Ten people that do not know what they are doing are not more capable than one.
-- Daniel Morgan http://www.outreach.washington.edu/extinfo/certprog/oad/oad_crs.asp damorgan_at_x.washington.edu (replace 'x' with a 'u' to reply)Received on Thu May 08 2003 - 23:25:40 CEST