What is the tnsnames.ora file?
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What is the tnsnames.ora file?
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The tnsnames.ora local naming configuration file contains service aliases. This file is used by clients and distributed database servers to recognize destinations and servers.
It is located in /network/admin on UNIX operating system and in ORACLE_HOME
etwork\admin on WINDOWS platform.
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