confused about SID and SERVICE_NAME in tnsnames.ora

From: Gene Gurevich <gurelei_at_yahoo.com>
Date: Thu, 18 Sep 2003 09:54:41 -0800
Message-ID: <F001.005D064C.20030918095441@fatcity.com>

hi all.

i have two databases running oracle 817 on different machines (AIX 4.3). I am trying to connect to these databases remotely from my desktop. when I use the "SERVICE_NAME = " in the connect_id for one of the databases, I get ora 12500 error. When I replace it with "SID=" everything works fine. For another database, SERVICE_NAME works every time. I looked and both databases and couldn't see anything to explain this . Can someone shed some light onto this. My Oracle client is 9201.

thanks

gene

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