[PHP-DB] tnsnames.ora + Apache & symbolic links

2002-04-06 Thread Florian Clever
I recently posted a question regarding connecting to a TNS service from PHP. I had been getting the error TNS operation timed out from PHP while connecting via sqlplus worked perfectly fine. If I was not using a TNS alias from PHP but a real connect string such as (DESCRIPTION=(ADDRESS=(PROTOCOL=

[PHP-DB] multiple oracle instances on one server

2002-04-03 Thread Florian Clever
Hello, I have two Oracle instances running on a Mandrake 8.1 box. SIDs are PM and QA. All the Oracle environment variables are set on Apache startup. And $ORACLE_SID=pm is set to. So connecting via ocilogon($user, $pass, '') to the db with SID=pm without specifying a service it works. As soon a

[PHP-DB] Oracle vs MS SQL vs MySQL

2001-04-05 Thread Florian Clever
ing, let's not limit it to just those three, if anyone is >overwhelmingly pleased with something else, name it please! :-) > >Thanks, >Brian -- Florian Clever [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.Clever-Software-Solutions.de/ PGP Key @ ldap://certserver.pgp.net/ "Always listen