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    Rep-0501 / Ora-12154

    I HAVE INSTALLED ORACLE DEVELOPER SUITE, AND TRYING TO CONNECT TO MY DATABASE THROUGH ORACLE FORM / AND REPORT BUILDER BOTH OF THEM !! BUT EVERYTIME I GET ERROR:
    REP-501 UNABLE TO CONNECT TO SPECIFIED DATABASE
    ORA-12154 TNS:COULD NOT RESOLVE THE CONNECT IDENTIFIER SPECIFIED,

    NOTE MY DATABASE IS UP AND RUNNING AND IM ABLE TO CONNECT TO IT THROUGH SQL*PLUS,
    BOTH THE DATABASE AND DEVELOPER SUITE ARE INSTALLED ON THE SAME MACHINE,

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    developer has its own tnsname file - you must modfy that

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    ok its done, im connected,

    Can someone recommend me some well presented,easy and straight forward tutorial for oracle developer(form/report) and Discovery, im oracle dba and have good undrestanding of oracle back end but need to get use to those tools asap.
    Last edited by khoshtip_uk; 11-08-2006 at 07:18 PM.

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    hi! got the same problem here, but i dont know what i have to modify! plz help... thx

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    the tnsnames.ora file

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    yeap, but i don't know what to modify there, i have this:

    EXTPROC_CONNECTION_DATA =
    (DESCRIPTION =
    (ADDRESS_LIST =
    (ADDRESS = (PROTOCOL = TCP)(HOST = whatever) (PORT = 1521))
    )
    (CONNECT_DATA =
    (SERVICE_NAME = PLSExtProc)
    )
    )

    thx!

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    put in the entry for your database

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    DONE!!! thx man! i had N problems with this, got oracle enterprise 11g and developer suite 10g on VISTA =s now i only have the problem that everyone has with the error "the nmefwmi.exe stopped working adn was closed" gotta wait for an update... Thx again!!! at least have my DB connected!

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    developer suite 1/3 connects

    The same tnsnames.ora thing is happening to me, sqlplus runs but not forms/reports

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    then change the tnsnames.ora for developer just like the others did

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