ORA-12560: TNS:protocol adaptor error
Solution 1
- Go to the windows machine that hosts the Oracle database server
Go to Start -> Run -> Services.msc in Windows. Locate OracleService < SID > (here
OracleServiceORCL
) and click onStart
to start the oracle database service (if not already running)-
Once it is up and running, from the command prompt run the following:
tnsping < tnsalias >
(tnsalias entry you can find it in
tnsnames.ora
file)
Solution 2
In my case I didn't have an OracleService
(OracleServiceORCL) in Windows Services.msc
as described in Bharathi's answer.
I executed this command:
C:\> ORADIM -NEW -SID ORCL
and then the OracleService
called OracleServiceORCL just showed up and got started in Services.msc. Really nice.
Source: https://forums.oracle.com/forums/message.jspa?messageID=4044655#4044655
Solution 3
Seems like database is not up. It might be due to restarting machine and the instance is not set to autostart and it so not started munually after starting from services Screen.
Just goto Command prompt
Set Oracle SID C:>set oracle_sid=ORCL
Now run Net start command. C:>net start oracleserviceORCL
Solution 4
Add to the enviroment vars the following varibale and value to identify the place of the tnsnames.ora file:
TNS_ADMIN
C:\oracle\product\10.2.0\client_1\network\admin
Solution 5
from command console, if you get this error you can avoid it by typing
c:\> sqlplus /nolog
then you can connect
SQL> conn user/pass @host:port/service
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Updated on July 05, 2022Comments
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Vishwanath Dalvi almost 2 years
I Google[d] for this error ORA-12560: TNS:protocol adaptor error but not able to find the actual reason and how to solve this error ?
Can anyone tell me a perfect solution to solve login problem.