Re: Oracle Names

From: <Jared.Still_at_radisys.com>
Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2003 11:18:59 -0700
Message-ID: <F001.005B0740.20030612110130@fatcity.com>

Dennis,

For the same reasons that you mention, we implemented Oracle Names here just last year, despite Oracle's proclamation that it is going away in 10i.
( or whatever the next version is )

Since we will be upgrading to Oracle 9i later this year, I'm not too worried about
the depracation of Oracle Names.

While Oracle Names is easy to setup, ODI is not.

Oracle Names need not be a single point of failure, you can have multiple name servers running. It's a pretty lightweight process, so you can proliferate
it to multiple servers without too much concern.

It is *much* better than multiple tnsnames.ora files.

Jared

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We are starting a project that will eventually have 500 laptops wandering around in the wild. These will have an Access database for untethered use, and will periodically connect to Oracle via Net8 to resynchronize itself. The idea of changing 500 tnsnames.ora files sometime down the line is daunting. I've been studying for the OCP Net8 exam, and they mention Oracle
Names.

Are any of you using the Oracle Names?
Is it as easy to configure as Oracle makes it sound, or is it difficult?
Is Names reasonably robust? I can see this as yet another single point of failure.
Oracle hinted that Oracle Names is going away in favor of LDAP. Is this imminent, or just a scare tactic? I had held off using Names because of this, but the company has made a commitment to MS Active Directory, which I gather from the list postings isn't very compatible with Oracle's LDAP.

Dennis Williams
DBA, 80%OCP, 100% DBA
Lifetouch, Inc.
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