RE: Oracle Names

Yes, the push method is a viable option to names. And you can just write a script that executes when user logon to the domain to check for a new copy of tnsnames.ora. Not very sophisticated yet effective.

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I never liked names, but that's just me. I thought keeping the names servers up to date, and making sure every client was configured to use the name servers, was a pain in the butt. You can have multiple names servers to eliminate a single point of failure.

The method I liked the best was to have the PC admin people push a new tnsnames.ora out to client machines using push software. Let THEM fuss with it!

Another method that works is to have the tnsnames.ora on a share and stick a shortcut on the client desktop that will update the local tnsnames.ora when the user clicks on it.

> -----Original Message-----
>
> 1. Are any of you using the Oracle Names?
> 2. Is it as easy to configure as Oracle makes it sound, or is
> it difficult?
> 3. Is Names reasonably robust? I can see this as yet another
> single point of
> failure.

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