Hi Roger, the easy connect string does not contain the TNSNAMES entry. sqlplus user/password@xxxxxxx:1521/SID Regards Martin Klier Roger Xu schrieb: > H:\>sqlplus tsdba/xxxxxx@UPS60D0 <mailto:tsdba/xxxxxx@UPS60D0> -- Usn's IT Blog for Linux, Oracle, Asterisk http://www.usn-it.de -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l