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In my research the TNS_ADMIN does not actually "re-set" the directory where Oracle looks.
The presence of a TNS_ADMIN env var is checked first, if found then this path is used to locate the tnsnames.ora and sqlnet.ora. If it is not found, Oracle looks at the ORACLE_HOME env var, if found then it looks at the registry for this HOME to see if the TNS_ADMIN exist there, if it does it uses that location.
The point being that the TNS_ADMIN is checked first. It appears that setting this variable would satisfy Joe's request.
Eric Harrington
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Carmichael
Sent: Wednesday, January 02, 2002 10:51 AM
To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
well the thing is, he wasn't looking for TNS_ADMIN since that just re-sets the directory Oracle looks at but wanted something that worked more like how login.sql works -- where if you have the file in your local working directory, it is used and overrides any other file.
In Unix, if you have a .tnsnames.ora file (please note the initial ".") in your own personal $HOME directory) it will override the values in the $ORACLE_HOME/network/admin/tnsnames.ora or the $TNS_ADMIN/tnsnames.ora file
THAT is what Joe wanted for Windows. It ain't in the flaming manuals.
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