Re: Oracle ODBC Connectivity

Just a response to the first part of this reply ( 'cause I'm a little tired of those who think upgrades are routine):

If you have 10 or 20 instances of Oracle running in a multi-site production environment and many of them are accessed by 3rd party apps ( developed in many cases by consultants) and those consultants only certify their apps against the version of Oracle it was written for, upgrading can be a very expensive and time-consuming process which will usually be put off until a scheduled upgrade of the app ( if any). - The cost to have the apps rewritten every time Oracle decides they need to issue a patch or version change ( except for security or memory leak issues) is prohibitive so, if it ain't broke we don't fix it..

New installations of course will use the latest stable release..( if there is such a thing with Oracle)

Thanks for the vent opportunity...

Kenneth C Stahl <ktsahl_at_yahoo.com> wrote:

>Vipul Kapadia wrote:
>>
>> Hi --
>>
>> I am facing a problem with conecting to Oracle on Win 2000 Server using ODBC.
>> The Oracle DB is up and running and I can connect to it using SQL Plus,
>> but when I try to connect to ODBC using the "ODBC Test" client, the
>> test client itself hangs up.
>>
>> Im using Oracle 8.1.5.
>>
>> Also tried connecting using VC++ application, but similarly the application
>> just hangs while establishing the connection.
>>
>> What could the problem be ?
>>
>> Regards
>> Vipul Kapadia
>
>Why are you using a deprecated version of the client?
>
>Also, what version of the MDAC are you using?

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