I have been facing this issue with sqlplus for quite sometime and have been ignoring it with shortage of time as an excuse. But i couldn’t avoid any further given that i had to do lot of DB stuff recently and i needed it running fine.
Issue:
I have TOAD, SQL Developer and SQLPlus all installed. I was able to connect to my db using TOAD and SQL Developer without issues but whenever i tried connecting using SQLPlus with same db/schema/pwd it threw up following error message,
ORA-12154: TNS:could not resolve the connect identifier specified
Strange!!!. There aint any issue with tnsnames.ora or sqlnet.ora since it is being used by other tools and they work fine. I googled around and did checks here n there but no help.
Resolution:
I happened to read somewhere that some special characters like @ etc. have special meaning for sqlplus and using them in userid/password confuses it. I had an @ in my password and that was the reason for this error. I changed my pwd and it worked like charm.🙂
Hey Amit! Thanks for sharing this. I never knew about this. Now, this is added to my knowledgebase.
Do share such experiences with technology🙂
Holy crap… this solved our problem after we wasted three hours on it! It was staring at us the whole time. Thanks!
Thanks!
You dont know how much time I wasted on this.
Thanks a million! Just the other day it was working fine..chnged pwd to include”@” and all hell broke loose.
Thanks again!
Hi, I dont have @ symbol in the password. Even then I was unable to connect to the DB.Though with SQL developer the same DB I can connect to. Could you help me to short out?
Thanks in Advance..
Mahesh