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Thread: Database Link Names - undocumented option if GLOBAL_NAMES=TRUE

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    I wanted to pass along an Oracle tip I discovered, and have passed along to
    other websites...

    When I was creating a database link the other day, I could create the link
    ok but could not get it to work. After exhausting all research thru the
    Oracle manuals, I found an article on Oracle's Metalink that explained what
    I needed to do. This tip is undocumented in the Oracle manuals.

    The following is pasted from a Word document I put together...ENJOY !

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    Found this in a Metalink article (DocID=1024124.6)

    This is not documented in the Oracle manuals and can be useful (even required) when the init.ora parameter GLOBAL_NAMES is set to TRUE.....
    Note that if GLOBAL_NAMES is set to FALSE, you can name the dblink anything you desire.

    Database Links
    --------------
    Database links are created using the following syntax:

    SQL> create database link
    connect to identified by
    using '';

    The name of the database link should match the global name of the target
    database if GLOBAL_NAMES=TRUE. This may seem restricting since then there can
    be only one database link per schema to a given database if global_names is
    set to true. To overcome this use database link qualifiers. For example:

    SQL> create database link oradb@link1
    using 'D:BOSTON-MFG';

    NOTE: in this example, 'link1' is database link qualifier
    and 'D:BOSTON-MFG' is the connect string

    My NOTE : your select to the remote database would look like this :
    select * from table_name@oradb@link1;

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    You are right that the documentation of Oracle about DB links is messy and incomplete (for example DB links in OPS). I usually set GLOBAL_NAMES to false. That way you might have some problems with advanced replications, etc. but you don't have to use DB link qualifiers.


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