Hi, As guys already said, TAF won't work using thin driver. For thin, FCF is documented that should work. I haven't tried it yet, so any feedback about experiences would be welcome... Thank you and regards, Igor 2011/4/20 John Scoles <scoles@xxxxxxxxxxx> > Seems JDBC uses TTC (Two Task connection) rather that OCI so you cannot use > any of the nifty OCI stuff. Look like you are back in the dark ages of > Oracle 7 when using this client. > > Cheers > John > > > On 20/04/2011 12:00 PM, Herring Dave - dherri wrote: > Right, I don't have a good place to test this. I was figuring a check of > FAILOVER* columns in the GV$SESSION view would be good enough verification > on what is getting set. I also validated with using sqlplus with a full > connect string: > >> sqlplus<user>/<pass>@'(DESCRIPTION...(FAILOVER = ON)...(FAILOVER_MODE = >> (TYPE = SELECT) (METHOD = BASIC))' >> >> that indeed FAILOVER* columns were set properly in GV$SESSION, so I >> hopefully eliminated any other problem other than jdbc/10g combo. >> >> DAVID HERRING >> DBA >> Acxiom Corporation >> EML dave.herring@xxxxxxxxxx >> TEL 630.944.4762 >> MBL 630.430.5988 >> 1501 Opus Pl, Downers Grove, IL 60515, USA >> WWW.ACXIOM.COM >> >> > -- > //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l > > >