Hello world,

when I try to make Oracle Designer connect to a database, it will ask
for username, password, and some strange "connect string".

While I do know the host IP, port number, and SID of the database, I
have no idea what the "connect string" must look like.

Who can help?

Jens

Jens Lenge schreef:

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Regards,
Frank van Bortel

Top-posting is one way to shut me up...

Frank van Bortel wrote:

Hmmm... that refers to SQL Plus and involves manual editing of config
files and/or environment variables.

Maybe I am just a little blind, but I did not find how the GUI-"connect
string" for Designer must be composed of host IP, port, and SID.

Could you please give a little example (such as "<host>:<port>:<sid>"
or something like that)?

Jens

Jens Lenge wrote:

There is no difference in connection to sql*plus as compared with
Designer, all Oracle products connect in the same fashion.
Could please start reading docs, instead of boring this forum to dead
with your FAQS, for which you could easily find the answer, if you
weren't so lazy?

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Sybrand Bakker
Senior Oracle DBA

sybrandb wrote:

I am quite used to Oracle SQL Developer ("Raptor").
It does not ask for a connect string, but host id, port, and SID.

As this actually is the required information, I guess the "connect
string" used by Designer must be composed of these parts.

I referred to the documentation and also asked Google but did not find
the composition syntax. If you had followed this thread you would have
noticed that I did also read the Network Blues blog I was directed to.
While the blog does confirm that the above data is relevant for
connecting to a remote database, it does not say how to compose the
connect string that Designer asks for, at least if I did not miss it.

Sorry if you feel bored. If my question is a FAQ, it would have been
enough to simply direct me to the URL of the FAQ of this group. If you
do not want to answer, you may feel free to ignore my post. But please
do not confuse being a newbie with laziness.

Jens

Jens Lenge wrote:

It is quite clear you *ARE* lazy, as you request to be spoon-fed and
don't want to search the docs.
You don't NEED to composition syntax, and setting up tnsnames.ora is
perfectly valid.

I guess the German people still didn't change since World War II.

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Sybrand Bakker
Senior Oracle DBA

sybrandb wrote:

http://learn.to/quote/

I see. Had a bad day? Why didn't you say in the first place that you
just want to bother and do not care about content?

Don't know, not my time.
Germans obviously do not have a monopoly on ignorance.

sybrandb schrieb:
IMHO, you could safely ignore Sybrand's remark about German people.
It would be wise, however, if you not ignore his remarks about searching
( and , much more important, reading) the docs.
The Oracle Documentation is pretty comprehensive, well organized and has
excellent search functionality. So, one can easily be suspictious about
not finding in the documentation nothing about connect string . If i
start at
the high level entry for documentation - http://tahiti.oracle.com/ - and
enter in the search form "connect string" - i will come to the next page
immediately, which says 416 matches across 95 books for 10gR2 ( you can
choose the appropriate Oracle version ) and suggest to search further in
that library. Accept suggestion and you get to the next page, which
lists matches for different books. The most matched topics (except Error
Messages) - 33 - has Net Services Administrator's Guide. That complies
with the common sense as well - one will expect "connect string" to be
network related.
You go there and among first matches see Chapter: 3 Connectivity
Concepts. And here begins the part which is complementary to the
documentation search - the reading of documentation.
Unfortunately, you should do it yourself, probably more than one time,
then you have not a couple of recipes but understanding, how it works.
If you still don't understand some things, you can always post here the
quote from manuals ( trying to be as precise as possible ), most likely
you'll get polite and comprehensive explanations.
You should not be surprised however, that people here will feel annoyed,
if you try to compel somebody to do *your* job for free. ( And reading
documentation is definitely *everybody*'s own job).

Best regards

Maxim

Jens Lenge schreef:

Did you try hostort:sid?

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Regards,
Frank van Bortel

Top-posting is one way to shut me up...

If you config your tnsnames.ora properly, you should not worry about
hostname, port id or even instance name. How do you connect to the
database via your other tools?
It should be something like this in sqlplus:

username/password@ABC

or in TOAD, what do you put in the filed 'Database'?

Then stick the ABC or the database field as the connect string. Then
you are good.
If you get an error, this means your tnsnames.ora is not correct. This
would be a different issue.

Frank van Bortel wrote: