MACROMEDIA COLDFUSION 5 - INSTALING AND CONFIGURING SERVER Manual page 145

Connecting to Oracle Databases
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Enter a New Service Name and click Next.
In the dialog box, select TCP/IP as the networking protocol to connect with.
Select the Oracle 8 database that you want to use in your ColdFusion application.
In the dialog box, enter the host name of the server where the Oracle 8 database
resides. The following figure shows the default for the port number:
After entering a host name, enter the Database SID, which identifies your specific
Oracle database instance.
The default is ORCL, but your database SID may be different. For this
information, see your DBA.
In the next dialog box, test the database service that you created.
To test the connection to the Oracle database, enter a username and password to
access the database. If you do not have this information, see your DBA.
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