Re: differences between Solaris and Windows in sqlplus connection specifiers?

From: Dave <x_at_x.com>
Date: Mon, 03 Jan 2005 22:10:03 GMT
Message-ID: <%ojCd.2550$GG1.2202@text.news.blueyonder.co.uk>

<yong321_at_yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:1104787925.083613.281480_at_z14g2000cwz.googlegroups.com...
> Oracle software just follows the UNIX convention that a personal config
> file stored at the user's $HOME begins with ".". Other than that,
> there's really no explanation I can or need to make. If you truss
> -topen tnsping yourSID, you'll see something like
>
> open("/home/huany1/.tnsnames.ora", O_RDONLY) = 3
> open("/var/opt/oracle/tnsnames.ora", O_RDONLY) = 3
> So it checks the personal .tnsnames.ora file first.
>
> Yong Huang
>

it was a question, wasn't questioning your point

thanks for the clarification Received on Mon Jan 03 2005 - 16:10:03 CST