Troubleshooting the ORA-24247 network access error
Getting slapped with an ora-24247 error out of nowhere is a massive pain, especially when you're just trying to send an email via UTL_SMTP or hit a web service using UTL_HTTP from your database. You've written your code, you've checked your logic, and everything looks perfect—but then you hit "run" and the database basically tells you that you don't have permission to talk to the outside world. It feels like hitting a brick wall when you're already in the home stretch of a project. ...