Re: DB_LINK Question

Greissing Christian wrote:

> Hello !
>
> In Oracle 7.2 it was possible to create a database link to a database
> naming it the you want, but now i tried to do the same in
> Oracle 7.3.2 and what happens, it works only when the link name
> is the same as the global_name of the database i want to connect to.
>
> What mistake do i make ???
>
> mailto: grc_at_rts.co.at

  That's the case only if you have global_names = TRUE setting in your init.ora. If you set it to FALSE you'll be ably to name your database link as you want. However, to make replication working you need to have global_names set to TRUE.

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