Is your database local to you? I ask this because I thought the listener
service would only run on the server. On my box I just have the client and
am trying to connect to a remote database.
"Mirco Schmedicke" <77488823-34488572_at_gmx.net> wrote in message
news:bp3301$f45$1_at_online.de...
> Hi.
>
> > So if I'm trying to access a database on another machine what all would
i
> > need to include for connect string?
>
> that is a good question. I had the same problems (some days ago). I wasn't
> able to find a connectionstring, that included all needet data. The only
way
> I found to fix this, was to install oralceclient and do a configuration
with
> the "net configuration assistant". If you do so, you can configure a
> configuration which will be stored in "tnsnames.ora". Then you have to run
> an "oraclelistener" as a service, which will resolve the connection name
> from the tnsnames.ora...:-(((
> After that your occi connectionstring will be the name of the connection
you
> wrote in the "net configuration assistant".
> Attention!: I don't know anything about oracle and occi! This is just what
i
> tried out. I am absolute shure that there must be an easier way! But I
> didn't found it, so I changed to ODBC (see below...).
>
> >Thanks. Also I'm assuming to run a
> > program using OCCI that you need to have the Oracle client installed on
> that
> > machine too. Is there any other options for Oracle access using C++?
>
> After my occi-desaster I just installed the oralce-odbc-driver, created a
> new project in VC++, added a class "extends" CRecordset
> (CMyODBC::CMyODBC(CDatabase* pdb): CRecordset(pdb)) and the connection
> worked fine.
> ..
> But I am at the beginning - just one day in advance to you:-)
> I will see if this way is easyer than occi....
>
> have a nice day,
> Mirco
>
>
Received on Tue Nov 18 2003 - 13:28:29 CST
