Jared, Brad, Jacques, Stephen, Thomas, Jose, Richard, Rich, Mladen, Ravi,
John, Gene, Dick, and anyone I left out. Thanks very much for sharing the
information on not only Oracle Names but the other alternatives. You have
given me a gold mine of information to approach this issue. This list is
WONDERFUL!! Thanks everyone.
Even if we choose not to implement Names, it will give me some incentive
to study those chapters for the OCP Net Administration module, which is the
only one I have left.
Dennis Williams
DBA, 80%OCP, 100% DBA
Lifetouch, Inc.
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Re pushing the tnsnames.ora out to desktops:
I considered that, but there were too many versions of it out there,
and the users may have ODBC DSN' s dependent on the contents
of their tnsnames.ora.
Re the share drive: Considered that too, but it's too easy for
net admins to re-arrange drives without advance warning.
( it has happened )
I compromised. The tnsnames.ora stays on the desktops.
The sqlnet.ora has this line:
NAMES.DIRECTORY_PATH = (ONAMES, TNSNAMES)
so that their tnsnames will still work, but I can make changes
in the name servers without worrying about their tnsnames files.
Updating the names servers is pretty simple, and I don't have
to schedule a change to all the desktops.
Works for me anyway.
Jared
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Subject: RE: Oracle Names
I never liked names, but that's just me. I thought keeping the names
servers up to date, and making sure every client was configured to use the
name servers, was a pain in the butt. You can have multiple names servers
to eliminate a single point of failure.
The method I liked the best was to have the PC admin people push a new
tnsnames.ora out to client machines using push software. Let THEM fuss
with
it!
Another method that works is to have the tnsnames.ora on a share and stick
a
shortcut on the client desktop that will update the local tnsnames.ora
when
the user clicks on it.
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>
> 1. Are any of you using the Oracle Names?
> 2. Is it as easy to configure as Oracle makes it sound, or is
> it difficult?
> 3. Is Names reasonably robust? I can see this as yet another
> single point of
> failure.
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