Hello OracleDoc,

Firstly may I say; Top quality handle and just what I need!!

I'm new to Oracle and mostly use TOAD when working with oracle so don't really understand what you mean by connecting via the command line do you mean SQL Plus or the DOS Prompt?
I presume in either case that I should be running sql pluse or dos from on the host server?

Also I don't know what you mean by listing the remote DB in the init.ora? I usually insert the connection string into the tnsnames.ora? Is that the same thing... doubt it??

I've tested my DBLink in reverse and it works okay. By this I mean that I'm having trouble connecting my Live DB to my BackUp DB.
BackUp DB connects to the Live without any problems

Cheers Al