Peter It means that If I have created a service on RAC as SANSRV where I had specified both node as preferred and TAF to SELECT. Now It means I can specify Host - VIP of any of the RAC Node SID - SANSRV Please correct me if I am wrong Thanks Sanjay Peter McLarty <p.mclarty@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: Hi Sanjay You should be able to change your host ip to the vip ip for the service associate with the database you are connecting to and the sid the that service. You would in theory have then failover for your script, it wont matter which instance of your cluster is up. Cheers --------------------------------- From: Sanjay Mishra [mailto:smishra_97@xxxxxxxxx] Sent: Thursday, 5 April 2007 02:55 AM To: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Perl DBI connection with RAC environment Hi I had single instance Oracle 8i Database earlier and now new environment is created with Oracle 10g RAC. There are several perl program been used to perform some application and I appreciate if somebody can guide as how to make changes in string Existing String is like unless ($san_db = DBI->connect("dbi:Oracle:host=192.168.111.111;sid=sandb", "scott", "tiger", {LongReadLen => 8000, AutoCommit => 0})) { ... I have two RAC node sandb1 and sandb2 Thanks Sanjay --------------------------------- The fish are biting. Get more visitors on your site using Yahoo! Search Marketing. --------------------------------- Food fight? Enjoy some healthy debate in the Yahoo! Answers Food & Drink Q&A.