Re: ERwin 4.0 and Oracle.

look at comp.databases.theory or search your news server's list of newsgroups to see what else might help.

"Zeyad S" <sweidanz_at_yahoo.com> wrote in message news:3AF554FB.E75A8D54_at_yahoo.com...
> Can you please tell us whats the database design newsgroup is?
> Thanks,
>
>
> Van Messner wrote:
>
> > This is a pretty vague answer cause it's been awhile since I used ERwin
> > rather than Designer. It used to be that ERwin lagged Oracle in terms
 of
> > supplying drivers. Do you have drivers to connect to databases as
 recent as
> > whatever version of Oracle you're using? And it used to be that when
 ERwin
> > was installed on the same machine as the database there was some odd
 connect
> > string perhaps @2: or something similar.
> > There's also a database design newsgroup where you might run into people
> > using ERwin4.
> >
> > Van
> >
> > "John Peterson" <johnp_at_azstarnet.com> wrote in message
> > news:tee1tmn0n1ep55_at_corp.supernews.com...
> > > (Oracle 8.1.7 EE on Win2K)
> > >
> > > Hello, all!
> > >
> > > I have a call in at Computer Associates to help me with this problem,
 but
 it
> > > might be a day or two before I hear back from them and I thought I'd
 solicit
> > > any opinions in this forum in the hopes that it'd be faster. ;-)
> > >
> > > I am trying to "Reverse Engineer" a schema from my Oracle database
 using
> > > ERwin 4.0. I'd like to be able to use the Oracle-specific features of
 ERwin
> > > as much as possible. I am trying to connect to the database and I am
> > > prompted for three fields: User, Password, and Connect String. I
 don't
> > > quite know what to put in for the Connect String. I have tried to put
 in
> > > the service name (<server>;1521;<SID>), the instance name
> > > (orcl.mydomain.com), the server name; but so far, all my attempts have
> > > failed. I'm able to connect to the Oracle database through a variety
 of
> > > other means (SQL*Plus, etc.), but not through ERwin.
> > >
> > > Any suggestions and ideas would be *very* welcome and appreciated!
 -)
> > >
> > > John Peterson
> > >
> > >
>
Received on Sun May 06 2001 - 17:04:05 CDT