Using 10g SQL Plus from a batch file

I installed the Oracle Database 10g Express Client and configured my ODBC and tnsnames.ora settings, and I think I have it all right, because when I open the SQL Command Line I can connect to the database just fine using:
connect <username>/<password>@<database>
However, when I try to log in through a non-SQL command line or batch file using the syntax:
sqlplus <username>/<password>@<database>
I get the error "ORA-12154: TNS:could not resolve the connect identifier specified." That syntax used to work for me with 9.2. Does the functionality still exist in 10.2?
Update #1:
The sqlplus login works from a normal command widow if I first CD C:\XEClient\bin. I still can't get it to work from a batch file, even when I specify the path. Does this mean the batch file command can't find my tnsnames.ora? If so, what environment variable do I need to set? I already have the client directory in the Path and ORACLE_HOME variables.
Update #2:
I started randomly trying every Oracle environment variable I could find a reference to, and found that setting TNS_ADMIN to the C:\XEClient\bin directory worked.
I don't need any responses to this post, so it can be deleted by an admin.
Edited by: user11241849 on Jan 13, 2010 12:05 PM

Hi Toni,
It is my first post here and I though telepathy already operated here :)
it is Oracle 9 I am talking about.
actually, I have 2 batch files
File 1, lets say the file name is batch1.bat and the contents are
sqlldr user/pwd@tnsname control='Control.ctl' data='data.txt'
File 2, batch2.bat and the contents are
Batch1.bat
Sqlplus user/pwd@tnsname @callproc.sql
Now if I run Batch2.bat, then only the first line to be executed which calling the batch1.bat , the second line (sqlplus) never executed!
Best Regards,
Yousef
Edited by: yousef_bayyari on 10-Nov-2009 06:25

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