Just failover is doable, instead of using host, port, sid format, you will have to use the whole TNS connection descriptor and specify multiple entries in there. You can also do load balancing that way. Richard Ji On Mon, 13 Dec 2004 13:10:22 -0800, Mary Bahrami <mbahrami@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Right. A previous poster pointed out that you cannot TAF with thin = > client. The initial question was for failover, not necessarily TAF. > -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l