Hello guys, I have a problem creating services for my pdbs. The 12c documentation say that when you create a pdb a default service with the same name as the pdb is created. So I created pdbs with the create pluggable database statement and indeed when I check the v$services view I can see new services with names like those of my pdbs. But I fail to get a clear difference between the columns name and network_ name of the v$services. The documentation says as follows
So i created by own services using the dbms_service package and made name pdb2 and network_name pdb2a. I then added name to my tnsname.ora instead of network name and I find that I am able to connect to the pdb. So what exactly is network_name for?