RE: LOCAL registry variable for 8.1.6

I have always had the feeling that I am not smart enough to understand which parameter goes to which subkey and what is the priority among the different subkeys. Now I feel that most parameters in 8i shoud be in .../ORACLE/HOMEx. It seems that it is recommended now not to use (directly) the registry, but environment variables (they are also saved in the registry, but in another part). My rule of thumb always has been: look where Oracle has put most of the parameters during install and put the additional parameters there :)

As it is almost Friday, here is the quiz for the non-native English speakers: What is the origin of the phrase "rule of thumb"?

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-----Original Message-----
From: Balakrishnan Subramanian [mailto:bala.subramanian_at_wcom.com] Sent: Thursday, August 31, 2000 8:42 PM
To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Subject: LOCAL registry variable for 8.1.6

For somereason, the developers want to set LOCAL registry variable
(HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE / SOFTWARE / ORACLE / LOCAL) to development database.
Basically they dont want to type the hoststring in a sql*plus userid/password dialog box. It works fine with SQL*Plus 3.3, SQL*Plus 8.0.5 but not in SQL*Plus 8.1.5, it gives me "ORA-12560: TNS:protocol adapter error".

Any help is highly appreciated.

Thanks,

Bala.

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Author: Balakrishnan Subramanian
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