You can gives a connect descriptor:
A connect descriptor is comprised of one or more protocol addresses of the listener and the connect information for the destination service.
(DESCRIPTION= (ADDRESS=(PROTOCOL=tcp)(HOST=sales-server)(PORT=1521)) (CONNECT_DATA= (SID=sales) (SERVICE_NAME=sales.us.example.com) (INSTANCE_NAME=sales)) (SERVER=shared))) )
- the ADDRESS section contains the following:
- The CONNECT_DATA section contains the following:
- SID parameter, which identifies the SID of the Oracle database. The SID is sales.
- SERVICE_NAME parameter, which identifies the service. The destination service name is a database service named sales.us.example.com.
- INSTANCE_NAME parameter, which identifies the database instance. The instance name is optional.
- SERVER parameter which identifies the service handler type where the parameter value can be
If shared server is configured in the initialization parameter file, you can select Dedicated Server to force the listener to spawn a dedicated server, bypassing shared server configuration. If shared server is configured in the initialization parameter file and you want to guarantee the connection always uses shared server, select Shared Server.
For some configurations, such as Oracle Real Application Clusters, multiple listeners on multiple nodes can be configured to handle client connection requests for the same database service. In the following example, sales.us.example.com can connect using listeners on either sales1-server or sales2-server.
(DESCRIPTION= (ADDRESS_LIST= (ADDRESS=(PROTOCOL=tcp)(HOST=sales1-server)(PORT=1521)) (ADDRESS=(PROTOCOL=tcp)(HOST=sales2-server)(PORT=1521))) (CONNECT_DATA= (SERVICE_NAME=sales.us.example.com)))
A multiple-listener configuration also enables you to leverage the failover and load balancing features, either individually or in combination with each other. The following topics describe the features:
- Connect-time Failover
- Transparent Application Failover
- Client Load Balancing
- Connection Load Balancing
You can get the connect string by performing a tnsping on the tnsname.
C:\Documents and Settings\Nicolas>tnsping orcl TNS Ping Utility for 32-bit Windows: Version 10.2.0.4.0 - Production on 10-JUN-2009 11:09:18 Copyright (c) 1997, 2007, Oracle. All rights reserved. Used parameter files: C:\oracle\product\10.2.0\db_1\NETWORK\ADMIN\sqlnet.ora Used TNSNAMES adapter to resolve the alias Attempting to contact (DESCRIPTION = (ADDRESS = (PROTOCOL = TCP)(HOST = ngerard)(PORT = 1521)) (CONNECT_DATA = (SERVER = DEDICATED ) (SID = orcl))) OK (80 msec) C:\Documents and Settings\Nicolas>tnsping qsdb > c:\tns.txt
You can then retrieve the TNS Connect Descriptor from the file tns.txt of from the screen. The TNS Connect string is :
(DESCRIPTION = (ADDRESS = (PROTOCOL = TCP)(HOST = ngerard)(PORT = 1521)) (CONNECT_DATA = (SERVER = DEDICATED) (SID = QSDB)))