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About Edson
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I can answer questions about Sql (including Sql tuning), pl/Sql and a bit of oracle administration

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I work as a consultant in Brazil and I face problems of all kind in oracle every day development.

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Topic: Oracle



Expert: Edson
Date: 6/26/2008
Subject: Oracle8i- TNS could not resolve service name

Question
hello sir,
  i am thivya working as a software developer.
  we got a project with VB as front end and oracle8i as back end. and i am new to oracle8i.
   the client  has given us database backup as dump file. we installed oracle and when try to run the project it is showing a run time error
  ORA-12154: TNS: could not resolve service name
could you please help me with this problem.

Answer
Hi there.

It can be many things, but there are some more possible:

1) The file TNSNAMES contains the configuration of host and sid of
the remote oracle server. See if its rigth.

2) Do you have acess to the oracle server?

If none of this help you, send me another e-mail

Regards

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