I have installed Oracle 11g, and I can connect as sysman to the Oracle database, but there is no tnsnames.ora file that I can find.Do I need to generate the tnsnames.ora file myself? If so, where do I place it? If not, how does Oracle generate it for me? If I do need to generate it, what is the appropriate syntax for the file?
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Answered on Sep 29, 2022
You can easily create a tnsnames ora [text] file. It should be in $ORACLE_HOME/network/admin/ and should look something like this:
ORATST=
(description=
(address_list=
(address = (protocol = TCP)(host = fu.bar)(port = 1521))
)
(connect_data =
(service_name=oratst)
)
)
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