RE: need an 8.0.5 client and an 8.1.7 client on same machine

From: Reardon, Bruce (CALBBAY) <Bruce.Reardon_at_comalco.riotinto.com.au>
Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2001 19:49:24 -0700
Message-ID: <F001.00392257.20010918190519@fatcity.com>

Doug,

I wrote the below without noticing that it was a winframe server. I haven't used a winframe server before. So, if it was a normal PC I would do what is below. I would probably do the same thing on a winframe server - I would just want to try it on a test server first.

805 on NT is not multiple-home compliant. So, you need to install 805 before you install 817 (install them into separate homes).

So what I would do is:

Backup Oracle configuration files
Do a total remove of Oracle off the client (ie registry, files, icons etc) Install 8.0.5 (eg into \oracle\product\805) Install 8.1.7 into its own home (eg into \oracle\product\817)

I would maintain only 1 set of Oracle networking files. eg create d:\oracle\admin\tns_admin
Create a system environment variable tns_admin with a value of d:\oracle\admin\tns_admin

Put sqlnet.ora and tnsnames.ora into d:\oracle\admin\tns_admin

Regards,
Bruce Reardon

-----Original Message-----
Sent: Wednesday, 19 September 2001 10:49

I need to get an 8.0.5 client and an 8.1.7 client working on the same machine.
Currently, the 8.1.7 is the only one installed. This is an NT winframe/metaframe server running NT 4.0. Some apps use the 8.1.7 client and
some will require the 8.0.5.

Any suggestions before I start the surgery?

Thanks,
Doug
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Author: Reardon, Bruce (CALBBAY)
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