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ORA-12154: TNS:could not resolve the connect identifier specified [message #667773] Mon, 15 January 2018 01:58 Go to next message
Lazarus
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Am trying to connect to my Oracle DB from SQLPlus but getting ORA-12154.

When i tnsping the DB it is responding with the same path where my sqlnet.ora.listener.ora and tnsnames.ora are located.

Kindly advise
Re: ORA-12154: TNS:could not resolve the connect identifier specified [message #667778 is a reply to message #667773] Mon, 15 January 2018 04:13 Go to previous messageGo to next message
Michel Cadot
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Don't tell, show us what you do and get.
Copy and paste your DOS session, no screen shot.

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Re: ORA-12154: TNS:could not resolve the connect identifier specified [message #667779 is a reply to message #667778] Mon, 15 January 2018 07:09 Go to previous message
BlackSwan
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ora-12154 ALWAYS only occurs on SQL Client & no SQL*Net packets ever leave client system
ora-12154 NEVER involves the listener, the database itself or anything on the DB Server.
ora-12154 occurs when client requests a connection to some DB server system using some connection string.
TNS-03505 is thrown by tnsping & is same error as ora-12154 thrown by sqlplus or others.
The lookup operation fails because the name provided can NOT be resolved to any remote DB.
The analogous operation would be when you wanted to call somebody, but could not find their name in any phonebook.
The most frequent cause for the ora-12154 error is when the connection alias can not be found in tnsnames.ora.
The lookup operation of the alias can be impacted by the contents of the sqlnet.ora file; specifically DOMAIN entry.
TROUBLESHOOTING GUIDE: ora-12154 & TNS-12154 TNS:could not resolve service name [ID 114085.1]
http://edstevensdba.com/oracle-tns/ora-12154tns-03505/
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