RE: confused about SID and SERVICE_NAME in tnsnames.ora

From: Gene Gurevich <gurelei_at_yahoo.com>
Date: Thu, 18 Sep 2003 11:14:41 -0800
Message-ID: <F001.005D0664.20030918111441@fatcity.com>

Avnish,

I have both of these parameters defined in each of the two databases. Yet, service_name only works on one.

Gene
--- Avnish.Rastogi_at_providence.org wrote:
> To use service_name, make sure that you have defined
> local_listener and service_name in init.ora file.
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> 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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