What's the difference between the 2 network protocols.. Named
Pipes and TCP/IP ? I have installed Oracle 8.0.6 here on couple
of machines. Whenever it comes to setting this I get confused.
My boss told me that we should use TCP/IP. But sometimes that
didn't work giving errors like NO LISTNER and I wasn't able to
connect to database. So I changed it to Named Pipes and it
worked ! But today I tried to use Named pipes on the different
machine connecting to same database and it gave me error TNS:
Unable to connect...( I am sorry but I do not have exact error
message right now). I did do all basic checks like PATH,
tnsnames.ora file, services etc. I tried to read about this on
Oracle website but no luck. Does any one know a book which
explains this in detail ? You can expect the TCP/IP to be
installed on all the servers and it does a secured packet
delivery. As a result most of the times your packets are safly
deliverd. Unlike udp, tcp confirms delivery too. Named pipes are
mostly used on the windows system. Since