Local Database Connection without Listener
430777Sep 20 2005 — edited Sep 20 2005We have Oracle 10g installed on our Windows XP Pro workstations, and in case of a network outage we would still like for our applications running on the workstations to be able to connect to the local database connection without a network connection.
However, our apps, currently, cannot connect. When the Listener service does not start (because we don't have a network connection) we cannot connect to the local database, which is strange. As I understand, there is a way to use an IPC connection instead of using TCP (which is probably the cause of our local connection problem). I've tried to add an IPC address to the tnsnames file for the database, but still, no local connection can be made without the Listener service being up.
Must we change our JDBC connection string as well for IPC connections?