Is it possible for Oracle sqlldr to accept a TNS entry as an instance qualifier in Oracle 10 and 11?

Question

Is it possible to use a fully qualified TNS entry using sqlldr bundled with Oracle 10/11?

For example, in SQLPlus:

    sqlplus user/password@(description         


        

Answer 1

Looks like you need to escape characters like '(', ')' and '=' with the escape character '\' (i.e. backslash) as explained in here.