Error in accessing Oracle

Question

Hi,
I have written following code:
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/* Get Connection */
try {
conn = DriverManager.getConnection("jdbc:oracle:thin:@890.227.250.152:1521:MAN_ADMIN", "SYSTEM", "password");
} catch (SQLException ex) {
// handle any errors
JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(frame, "There is some Error.\n See the Console for details.", "Error !", JOptionPane.ERROR_MESSAGE);
System.out.println("SQLException: " + ex.getMessage());
System.out.println("SQLState: " + ex.getSQLState());
System.out.println("VendorError: " + ex.getErrorCode());
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I'm getting following erro while running the code:
C:\JavaProjects>java MainMenu
SQLException: Listener refused the connection with the following error:
ORA-12505, TNS:listener does not currently know of SID given in connect descript
or
The Connection descriptor used by the client was:
890.227.250.152:1521:MAN_ADMIN
SQLState: null
VendorError: 0
Error in searchListener: ....
java.lang.NullPointerException
Please tell me what's wrong with the code.
Thanks,
Rajeev.

Answer 1

IIRC the SID is usually not the DB-Name (username), but rather the instance name. The default is "orcl" (IIRC) and that's found pretty often, try that.