Thank you Mark, Andy, Rich, Richard, Jared, Brandon and Anthony for your replies We are planning to use OID for password and privilege storage as well as replacement for tnsnames. Unless we run into too many issues thank you Gene Gurevich <genegurevich@dis cover.com> Sent by: To oracle-l-bounce@f oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx reelists.org cc Subject 08/19/2009 10:27 OID and tnsnames.ora AM Please respond to genegurevich@disc over.com Hello everybody: Can anyone point me to a document/article/book explaining how to use OID to resolve service names instead of tnsnames.ora? thank you Gene Gurevich Please consider the environment before printing this email. -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l Please consider the environment before printing this email. -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l