RE: Problem trying to create Oracle ODBC DSN

Thank you for the quick response. I will definitely look into these things.

Tina

• "Shaw, John B" <jbshaw_at_ingr.com> wrote:
  > Did you may have to also remove the odbc dll's from
  > the windows directory -
  > these usually don't get removed when you do an
  > uninstall, and they could
  > have been updated/trashed when you installed the
  > other product. Be sure and
  > get the 8059 odbc driver off of technet, it fixes
  > several problems.
  >
  > -----Original Message-----
  > Sent: Tuesday, January 16, 2001 3:01 PM
  > To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
  >
  >
  > All,
  >
  > One of our user groups is running a 3rd party
  > software
  > application which currently only runs on Oracle
  > 8.0.5.
  > The application is installed on a Windows 98 PC, as
  > was the Oracle 8.0.5 client software. An ODBC
  > datasource name was created for use in connecting to
  > the database. All was fine until one user began to
  > experience ODBC error problems when performing some
  > operations, namely update and some types of retrieve
  > operations. She recently had another new software
  > (java-based) application installed on her desktop.
  > She is the only one experiencing this problem. I
  > de-installed the Oracle client software, then did a
  > re-install, rebooted, set-up the tnsnames file but
  > now
  > the ODBC 32 administrator will not complete the
  > setup
  > to create the datasource name for the connection.
  > The
  > sqlplus connection to the database works. When you
  > go
  > to add datasource name, the driver name is there but
  > when selected it does not prompt you to enter
  > connect
  > data, does not issue error message ... it just
  > disappears.. It did not seem to have a problem with
  > trying to create a MS Access DSN. Anyone experience
  > similar problems like this? If so, what did you do
  > to
  > resolve it?
  >
  > TIA,
  >
  > Tina
  >
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