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Leah is right - many possibilities. One is that you may now have multiple tnsnames.oras etc. on your machine and may have to configure each of them as you did the successful one you use for Oracle itself.
Van
"Frank van Bortel" <fbortel_at_home.nl> wrote in message
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> PLease state version(s) and error code - this could mean anything from
> a non-started database to a network config error.
>
> Leah Tobias wrote:
>
> > Hello. I'm new to this newsgroup so I'll quickly introduce myself... My
> > name is Kelly and I'm currently studying for OCP exam #2 (Database
> > Administration). I'm a VB programmer who is also studying VC++ and Palm
> > Programming.
> >
> > My final goal is to find a job developing database applications in
either
> > VB, C++, Powerbuilder or whatever is hot at the time. I'm hoping that
by
> > doing the DBA track I'll be ahead of the game.
> >
> > Now for my question:
> > I purchased the book "Developing Clinet/Server Applications with Oracle
> > Developer/2000" from Sams Publishing. I have Oracle 8 running on a
WinNT
> > machine - I loaded the trial version of Oracle Developer/2000 that came
with
> > the book I can't seem to connect to the database... I get an error
stating
> > that the database is inaccessible.
> >
> > I'm feeling rather stupid right now because this seems like something
> > simple - but I'm totally stumped. Can anyone give me some help!!
> >
> > Kelly Tobias
>
> --
> Gtrz,
>
> Frank van Bortel
>
>
Received on Mon Nov 27 2000 - 19:52:00 CST