Re: Visual Basic connection to Oracle Personal 8i

Jim wrote:

> Hello everyone:
>
> I've just installed Oracle 8i Personal version and want to connect to the
> database using Visual Basic. I've been trying to figure out the
> documentation but my background is such that I don't seem to get it. Can
> someone give me the steps I have to follow to use VB as a front end to the
> data base? I've been trying different things but get errors such as:
>
> Test Connection failed because of an error in initializing provider.
> ora-12154 . TNS:Could not resolve service name.
> Error in initializing provider ora-12560. Etc....
>
> I've been trying to use Net8 but no luck.
>
> Thanks for any help you can give me!

What method of connection are you trying to use? ODBC? OLEDB? RDO? DAO? OO4O? All of them have separate techniques - although all of them depend on sucessfully creating a service name via Net8. Received on Tue Dec 12 2000 - 07:17:25 CST