Originally posted by vinit
Thanx Julian..it did work. But i would like to know the reason. any inputs ?

Cheers
That's good! It took me a couple of hours to figure that out when I created 2 databases on an Oracle Parallel Server and I needed to create the DB links. I found nothing on Metalink (besides the wrong suggestions). Then I decided to try all posible that I could come up with.

The reason: You need to have the right syntax :-)