Another thing I would check will be tnsnames.ora. I am using it in 9I and I defined service_name and local_listener init.ora. In the tnsnames.ora I defined SERVICE_NAME not ORACLE_SID. For listenet I am using self service registration.
-----Original Message----- Sent: Thursday, September 18, 2003 12:15 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Avnish, I have both of these parameters defined in each of the two databases. Yet, service_name only works on one. Gene --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > To use service_name, make sure that you have defined > local_listener and service_name in init.ora file. > > -----Original Message----- > Sent: Thursday, September 18, 2003 10:55 AM > To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L > > > 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. 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