Again I am fairly new to Oracle so it has been quite a learning process and typically I have been running into errors that are easy to resolve but being able to locate the answers easy has been challenging. While attempting to use sqlplus.exe from the Windows 7 command line I continued to receive a TNS protocol adapter error and it turns out it was simply from using the incorrect syntax. Below I describe the error in more detail as well as the correct syntax to use for sqlplus on Windows 7.

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