Ditto. Oracle Names was indeed superior to OID for naming purposes. Jared Still Certifiable Oracle DBA and Part Time Perl Evangelist Oracle Blog: http://jkstill.blogspot.com Home Page: http://jaredstill.com On Sun, Oct 25, 2009 at 5:43 AM, Goulet, Richard <Richard.Goulet@xxxxxxxxxxx > wrote: > They did, it was called ONames till some BOZO convinced them that LDAP > was the future. > > > *Dick Goulet*** > Senior Oracle DBA/NA Team Lead > PAREXEL International > > > ------------------------------ > *From:* oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto: > oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] *On Behalf Of *~Jeff~ > *Sent:* Sunday, October 25, 2009 3:52 AM > *To:* sundarmahadevan82@xxxxxxxxx; Oracle-L@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > *Subject:* Re: tnsManager Vs OID > > tnsManager just uses a tnsnames.ora file , no database required. > > Its a shame Oracle didn't make OID so elegantly simple! > > > 2009/10/25 sundar mahadevan <sundarmahadevan82@xxxxxxxxx> > >> From Alan's reply, Am I correct in understanding that OID requires an >> oracle database for names resolution. But with respect to tnsManager, >> I do not think it requires a database. >> >> On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 7:28 PM, Guillermo Alan Bort >> <cicciuxdba@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> > Plus you get the basic memory footprint of an Oracle Database... I don't >> > reckon you will need much memory... but at least 200MB... >> > >> > cheers. >> > Alan Bort >> > Oracle Certified Professional >> -- >> //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l >> >> >> >