Re: Weird problem with Oracle 8 ODBC driver ?

From: Versola <versola_at_lucent.com>
Date: Wed, 03 Mar 1999 11:50:06 -0500
Message-ID: <36DD683D.35FA9789@lucent.com>

Thanks,
That fixed our problem.

BTW make sure that the PATH statement in the autoexec.bat (win9x) includes the equal sign (=) e.g. PATH=c:\orawin95\bin;etc... and delete any spaces between the last character of the directory name and the delimiting semicolon (;)

support email wrote:

> The MS driver for Oracle requires a 7.3 client innstallation, it
> cannot use the 8.0.x client.
>
> The reason that the Oracle ODBC DSN config screen never displays is
> that you do not have the ORACLE_HOME\BIN directory in the OS search
> path...
> open an DOS prompt and type in PATH then press return...
> Look at the displayed path. If you do NOT see the ORACLE_HOME\BIN
> directory there, then get it in there...

Received on Wed Mar 03 1999 - 10:50:06 CST