RE: tnsnames.ora not working ?

From: Jamadagni, Rajendra <Rajendra.Jamadagni_at_espn.com>
Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2004 10:09:25 -0800
Message-ID: <F001.005DDAA3.20040120100925@fatcity.com>

what is the listener status??

Raj

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Sent: Tuesday, January 20, 2004 10:49 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L

Hello,
I'm trying to add description in my $ORACLE_HOME/network/admin/tnsnames.ora, but it seems that the client (ie. sqlplus) wont use it. Whenever I try to connect to the service using sqlplus, I got :

$> sqlplus

Enter user-name: developer_at_dev_db
Enter password: *****
ORA-12154: TNS:could not resolve service name

I tried to add the description to my ~/.tnsnames.ora too with no luck. The entry in the tnsnames.ora is:

DEV_DB =
   (DESCRIPTION =

     (ADDRESS_LIST =
       (ADDRESS = (PROTOCOL = TCP)(HOST = hostname)(PORT = 1521))
     )
     (CONNECT_DATA =
       (SERVICE_NAME = dev_db)
     )

   )

(note: I removed the real hostname for privacy/security reason of course)

However, when I use sqlplus using the following way:

$> sqlplus

Enter user-name:
developer@(description=(address=(protocol=tcp)(host=hostname)(PORT = 1521))(CONNECT_DATA =(SERVICE_NAME = dev_db))) Enter password: *****

It would work, where all the information from the description is just a copy-paste from the tnsnames.ora file.

Is there anything I overlook? Sorry if this is kinda a newbie question. I'm still learning my way around this. I'm using Oracle9i on Redhat Linux.

Thanks for any help.

Reuben D. Budiardja

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