Re: MSDAORA and Oracle 8.1.7 - problems establishing connection

MSDAORA will not work on a client when the Oracle OleDB has been installed. Don't ask me why but I think it's a pain in the @##. I have some things that will not work because a few of our databases are still on 8.0.5.

You'll have to use the OraOLEDB.oracle to get a connection.

Mike

"Matt Man" <matt.mcdonnell.90_at_bc.edu> wrote in message news:b4aef96e.0203270908.1ade49c7_at_posting.google.com...
> I am running the 8.1.7 Client from an NT box trying to connect to an
> 8.1.7 Server running on Win2K.
>
> Net8 Assistant has no problems connecting to the database and with
> some troubleshooting, the Oracle ODBC driver works fine, while the MS
> ODBC driver for Oracle however will not... is there a related issue
> here?
>
> I've been pouring over the archived newsgroups for the past 24 hours
> and still cannot find a solution to my problem. I have put in the
> TRS_ADMIN registry key, I've double and triple checked my tnsnames.ora
> file and I've even added the service name to my local hosts file
> (although I'm confident that this doesn't change anything anyway)
>
> There's a chance I might solve this by using OraOLEDB.Oracle
> instead... but I wonder if there isn't a simpler solution. Switching
> to OraOLEDB.Oracle now would blow-up my testing efforts.
>
> Any help would be GREATLY appreciated.
>
> Matt Man
Received on Thu Mar 28 2002 - 12:05:58 CST