How to connect to a DB with a service name?

[BrianB]

I have followed the instructions for "https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/JIRAKB/How+to+Connect+JIRA+to+ORACLE+Using+Service+Name" but it did not work because the SID is not the same across the servers. Atlassian support is not sure the article would apply with different SIDs. Is this possible?

[Andris Grinbergs · Accepted solution]

What do you mean with "SID is not the same across the servers"? Do you have more than 1 database server?

[BrianB]

becausewehave4differentservershostingtheDBsnow

iftheloadononeserverisoverload

systemwillpickupsomeDBsandmovetoanotherserverwhichhasmorecapacityatthattime

SO the SID could change

[Andris Grinbergs]

It seams like Oracle thin java client can't do this "magic". It seams you should then install full oracle client on Jira server. And use similar option in Jira tomcat:

-Doracle.net.tns_admin=$ORACLE_HOME/network/admin

Probably you should read this article carfully: http://docs.oracle.com/cd/B19306_01/java.102/b14355/urls.htm

[Andris Grinbergs]

Try following syntax in dbconfig.xml <url> section:

jdbc:oracle:thin:@(DESCRIPTION=
(LOAD_BALANCE=on)
(ADDRESS_LIST=
(ADDRESS=(PROTOCOL=TCP)(HOST=host1) (PORT=1521))
(ADDRESS=(PROTOCOL=TCP)(HOST=host2)(PORT=1521)))
(CONNECT_DATA=(SERVICE_NAME=service_name)))"

After @ you should write service name database definition from your tnsnames.ora

[BrianB]

This worked! Sorry for the delay, been busy with projects. Thanks for your advice