Re: Remote client to startup using SuSe

From: Holger Baer <holger.baer_at_science-computing.de>
Date: Wed, 06 Oct 2004 13:54:51 +0200
Message-ID: <ck0mec$t33$1@news.BelWue.DE>

Howard J. Rogers wrote:
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> OK, point taken, and you got me fair and square. The brain and the fingers
> were not communicating properly.
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> In the true spirit of getting my own back, nicely, however...
>
> I would just point out that they tend not to be called "tns aliases" these
> days. The "proper" name for them is, apparently, "Oracle Net Service Name
> Aliases". Or variations on that theme. Largely, I suppose, because many
> people won't be using tnsnames.ora as their names resolution mechanism...
>
> :-)
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> Yeah, I still call them tnsnames aliases too!!
>
>

Thanks for the heads up, I'm positively looking forward to typing in that word beast. Not that anyone will bother to read my posts anymore, a connect string of

sqlplus "sys/<sys_password>@<Oracle Net Service Name Alias> as sysdba"

will certainly bring tears to the bravest of (wo)men. But so what.

;-)

Cheers,

Holger Received on Wed Oct 06 2004 - 06:54:51 CDT