Need to create an ALIAS....

Hi GUYS,

I need to create an alias for the the connect statement.
I want to replace "CONNECT TO DBNAME" to "CONNECT TO DBNAME user USERID using PASSWORD"

I thought i will add an alias in the .profile.
But its not working. May be because i am trying to create it for 3 words instead of one word..
Please correct me wrong..
Please help me out with this..

Thanks for your help in advance,
Magesh.

Show us what you have attempted to do so far. Then we can show you what is wrong.

Use a function rather than an alias. An alias cannot incorporate arguments; a function can.

As the bash man page says, "For almost every purpose, aliases are superseded by shell functions."