>> The fact still remains that the generic "Host" slot could >> be used for this purpose quite easily, as could the "DB" slot. > > I really really object to the DB slot being called DB. Oracle's term > "tablespace" is much less overused and confusing than database.
But Oracle tablespaces have nothing to do with connecting; they're logical pools of storage only, and they play no part in name resolution. You can't specify a "tablespace" when connecting, you connect to an instance of a database, and you specify a user to authenticate as, which then determines which schema unqualified names refer to (by default). So using "tablespace" in a DSN for Oracle would itself be confusing. -- Andy Hassall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> / Space: disk usage analysis tool <http://www.andyh.co.uk> / <http://www.andyhsoftware.co.uk/space>
