hi all. i have two databases running oracle 817 on different machines (AIX 4.3). I am trying to connect to these databases remotely from my desktop. when I use the "SERVICE_NAME = " in the connect_id for one of the databases, I get ora 12500 error. When I replace it with "SID=" everything works fine. For another database, SERVICE_NAME works every time. I looked and both databases and couldn't see anything to explain this . Can someone shed some light onto this. My Oracle client is 9201.
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