Re: VB Oracle Control and Logging In

From: Matthias Gresz <GreMa_at_t-online.de>
Date: 24 Nov 1998 14:13:11 GMT
Message-ID: <73eetn$tp7$1@news02.btx.dtag.de>

Hi,

J. Bigger schrieb:
>
> Greetings one and all,
>
> I am currently working on a VB6 application that 1) prints a report and
> 2) updates an Oracle 8 field with the current system date. THe report
> printing is not a problem. My problem lies in using the Oracle Data
> Control in my application. I have included it but when I try to get at
> the data in our DB I get a error saying the login failed due to an
> improper username (which is correctly entered in my ODBC setup) or
> password.

Oracle Data Control connects directly (via SQL*net) to Oracle. It _doesn't_ use ODBC! So what you've to do is to suply the Oracle Data Control with the correct login info (user/pwd/alias).

> My question is: How do I get connected into my DB?
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> JRB
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