On Mon, Dec 6, 2010 at 3:56 PM, CRISLER, JON A (ATTCORP) <JC1706@xxxxxxx>wrote: > If you are running your JDBC thick client on the same server, I imagine it > would work fine, but if you are running jdbc thin drivers on a separate > server where it does not use tnsnames, then an alias would not work, right ? > > > > Good tip about v$parameter2- I did not know that existed. > Ah, I probably have not encountered problems with it because I normally create a service name to match the alias. Jared Still Certifiable Oracle DBA and Part Time Perl Evangelist Oracle Blog: http://jkstill.blogspot.com Home Page: http://jaredstill.com