Re: Newbie connection question

From: Chuck Gardner <cgardner_at_san.rr.com>
Date: Sun, 03 Jun 2001 17:23:26 GMT
Message-ID: <iouS6.25711$Ox.12169206@typhoon.san.rr.com>

Ah yes ... leave the Server Name field in the BDE _blank_!!
After trying for hours with various path names, you had the answer.
Thanks very much.
... Chuck Gardner

wayne <no_at_email.please.com> wrote in message news:9fc138$hp1_at_dispatch.concentric.net...
> What do you type in to connect through the SQL
Plus? on the BDE try leaving
> the server name blank (that tells Oracle to look
in the local machine).
>
> On some programs you cannot leave the server
parameter blank, so you have to
> create a Net8 alias for the local machine (by
specifying the bequeath
> protocol, or even TCP/IP address 127.0.0.1 will
work), use the net8 alias as
> a last resort, no need to complicate things!.
>
>
Received on Sun Jun 03 2001 - 12:23:26 CDT