Re: NEWBIE needs help on how to start starter db

Try typing 2: as your connect string. This will connect you to your local DB
It works for me.

Mark

Richard Núñez wrote in message ...
>I feel like a complete idiot. I've kind of master MS SQL 6.0+, but for the
>life of me, I cannot even connect to the starter DB that was instaled with
>Oracle 8.0.5.
>
>I start SQL Plus and use "internal" as the username and "oracle" as the
>password and for the host string I enter "oracle", "orcl", "tns:orcl", &
>"@tns:orcl" and almost all of the combinations.
>
>Can someone please wack me on the head and set me straight on how to do
>this. I just want to learn!!!!
>
>I'l going crazy.
>
>P.S. I did a regular install straight from the CD with no problems. I
even
>went as far as to install NT 4.0 (SP3, IE 4.01 SP1) on a fresh clean
machine
>(233 PPro, 128 RAM, 4 GB HD).
>
>
Received on Wed Mar 31 1999 - 06:19:05 CST