RE: Oracle Names

From: Mercadante, Thomas F <NDATFM_at_labor.state.ny.us>
Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2003 11:30:04 -0700
Message-ID: <F001.005B070A.20030612105501@fatcity.com>

Dennis,

We are using Oracle Names. It is very easy to set up and use. It typically is run on a pair separate servers (think of a DNS Server) for redundancy.

It can run off of a TNSNAMES file or another Oracle database. Personally, I would use a TNSNAMES file - one less DB to maintain.

I think if I would be implementing it now, I would use the new Oracle LDAP service. One fellow DBA is playing with it here and he says it is simple to set up. ONAMES is supposedly going away, so going with the new product now makes sense.

Good Luck!

Tom Mercadante
Oracle Certified Professional

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We are starting a project that will eventually have 500 laptops wandering around in the wild. These will have an Access database for untethered use, and will periodically connect to Oracle via Net8 to resynchronize itself. The idea of changing 500 tnsnames.ora files sometime down the line is daunting. I've been studying for the OCP Net8 exam, and they mention Oracle Names.

Are any of you using the Oracle Names?
Is it as easy to configure as Oracle makes it sound, or is it difficult?
Is Names reasonably robust? I can see this as yet another single point of failure.
Oracle hinted that Oracle Names is going away in favor of LDAP. Is this imminent, or just a scare tactic? I had held off using Names because of this, but the company has made a commitment to MS Active Directory, which I gather from the list postings isn't very compatible with Oracle's LDAP.

Dennis Williams
DBA, 80%OCP, 100% DBA
Lifetouch, Inc.
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