What determines the "Hostname" for a oracle instance?
I recently installed Oracle 11g on my desktop to play with and wanted to connect using SQL developer
Installing Oracle 11g i basically left everything default while installing.
I enabled the scott/tiger account
In SQL Developer i input the following
Connection name: Test
Username: scott
Password: tiger
Oracle connection type: Basic
Role: default
Hostname: 192.168.X.XXX
Port: 1523
SID: orcl
The port i can some what understand that during installation it will find a default/open port for me to connect through. What i dont understand is the "Hostname".
What determines the "Hostname"?
Can i change this to for example "localhost"?
I know when i installed the express edition of Oracle i was able to leave the hostname as "localhost"
Just wondering why I cant do the same for the Oracle 11g installation? As I installed both SQL developer and the Oracle 11g on my desktop and i would have thought i could have just used "local host" as host name?
Thanks
Edited by: rodneyc8063 on Jan 19, 2012 10:00 PM