First Comment

I got my first comment ! ! ! I am so happy ! ! ! I feel so disvirgined ! ! ! And it was by Mr. Marcio Portes. People are actually reading this stuff.


PS. Pretty cool picture huh ? I got it from here

Transparent Networking Substrat

Does anybody know what TNS (from tnsname.ora) actually stands for ?

It stands for Transparent Networking Substrat. Just a "Did you know ???" kinda question. I love those "Did you know" questions. They are interesting for a sort while, make you think you discovered some extremely important stuff and you never memorize the info on them because it is so useless. :O)
Just though it would be interesting to post TNS here. I have asked experienced people what TNS stood for and they couldn't tell. They were like "All you need to know is that it contains the necessary info to connect to instances of some database".
Now that I know what it stands for, whenever I feel like talking intelligently I will be like:

Some user/developer:

Gleisson Henrique, I can't connect to the database. It says it can't resolve the TNS name. What should I do ? Please help me ! ! ! ! !

Gleisson Henrique:

Well, all you need to do is make sure your Transparent Networking Substrat file is configured properly.

I bet they will be more lost than before talking to me.

PS. Don't I have the stupidest ideas? Look what I wrote three little meaningless letters ! I should be reading my books instead.

Update on status

Just a update on my crusade. I will be honest, I haven't read as much as I would like to. For one reason, I am out of time and secondly I am reading Digital Fortress by Dan Brown which is pretty damn good. Anyways, I am about to start Chapter 5 - Architecture of Beginning Oracle programming. Up to that point, the material was very basic. Really designed for no-prior experience people. Really good book to start off with.