Niall, With 3000+ tnsnames files running around you should have made the move = to Oracle names long ago. The migration to OID thereafter is very = simple, working on it, & then it does not involve AD at all. Dick Goulet Senior Oracle DBA Oracle Certified 8i DBA -----Original Message----- From: Niall Litchfield [mailto:niall.litchfield@xxxxxxxxx] Sent: Wednesday, August 11, 2004 6:52 AM To: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Is it just me I'm reading the Directory Service Integration and Deployment Guide right now. I think we want to move from 3000+ tnsnames files to centralized naming and integrating with Active Directory seems plausibly sensible (suggestion as to why to avoid it whilst still running on Windows welcomed). I come across this table comparing directory services and relational databases. Directories - read more frequently than written Relational Databases - written more frequently than read.=20 My experience of RDBMS systems is just the opposite. So do folk agree with the generalisation abve, or do you consider databases to be a read-mostly environment? --=20 Niall Litchfield Oracle DBA http://www.niall.litchfield.dial.pipex.com ---------------------------------------------------------------- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com ---------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe send email to: oracle-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx put 'unsubscribe' in the subject line. -- Archives are at //www.freelists.org/archives/oracle-l/ FAQ is at //www.freelists.org/help/fom-serve/cache/1.html ----------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com ---------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe send email to: oracle-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx put 'unsubscribe' in the subject line. -- Archives are at //www.freelists.org/archives/oracle-l/ FAQ is at //www.freelists.org/help/fom-serve/cache/1.html -----------------------------------------------------------------