John, Try using service. Either set service_names parameter, or use srvctl add service command if you are using ASM (Grid Infrastructire). Thanks, Gunawan Yuwono On Mon, Sep 24, 2012 at 7:26 AM, John Dunn <JDunn@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > My oracle database name(SID) is ORCL > > However in order to make it easier to support a customer I would like to > be able to refer to the same database in my JDBC string as e.g. JOHNTEST > rather than ORCL > > What changes do I need to make to listener config files to enable me to > do this? I tried adding JOHNTEST to tnsnames.ora on the Oracle server > but I get a message > ORA-12505, TNS:listener does not currently know of SID given in connect > descriptor > > Oracle is 11G on linux. > > Any help appreciated. > > > > > > > > > John > > > -- > //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l > > > -- Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change - Confucius -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l