How to fix the Oracle error ORA-06720: TLI Driver: SID lookup failure?

In this post, you’ll learn more about the Oracle ErrorORA-06720: TLI Driver: SID lookup failure with the details on why you receive this error and the possible solution to fix it.

Oracle Error Description

ORA-06720: TLI Driver: SID lookup failure

Reason for the Error ORA-06720: TLI Driver: SID lookup failure

The database SID supplied in the database login string was not recognized by the remote host.

How to fix the Error ORA-06720: TLI Driver: SID lookup failure ?

You can fix this error in Oracle by following the below steps

Ask your system administrator to add the appropriate SID entry to oratab on the remote host.