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listener [message #8726] Mon, 22 September 2003 02:50 Go to next message
Vikas Kale
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What is listener? What it's function?
Re: listener [message #8733 is a reply to message #8726] Mon, 22 September 2003 06:17 Go to previous message
Thiru
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Registered: May 2002
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Its a process that runs on a specific port(s),sits infront of the database instance, listening to the incoming connection requests from the clients.
In Dedicated server mode,the listener is responsible for spawning a dedicated Server process that takes care of the client's database requests and in the Shared Server mode(MTS), the listener assigns a dispatcher process for the requesting user process.

In short,clients connect to the database via the listener process(but not always).

For more details,refer documentation.

HTH
Thiru
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