Re: ORA-12705 when connecting with 10gR2 JDBC driver

From: Thomas Kellerer <WVIJEVPANEHT_at_spammotel.com>
Date: Wed, 02 Nov 2005 19:35:54 +0100
Message-ID: <3ssf8bFpvjkpU1@individual.net>

On 02.11.2005 19:41 Frank van Bortel wrote:

> Thomas Kellerer wrote:
> 

>>Hello,
>>
>>when I try to connect to an Oracle 9.2 database using the Oracle 10g R1
>>JDBC thin driver, everything is working fine, but when I use the Oracle
>>10g R2 (thin) driver I get the following error:
>>
>>ORA-00604: error occurred at recursive SQL level 1
>>ORA-12705: invalid or unknown NLS parameter value specified
>>
>>Any ideas why the connection does not work with the R2 driver?
>>
>>I do have an Oracle 9.2 client installed on my computer (WinXP), but the
>>thin driver should not use any of the Oracle client software (or
>>registry settings), right?
>>
>>Thanks for any input.
>>
>>
>>Regards
>>Thomas

> 
> 
> Because you use one of the new character sets?
> Reading the "New Features" section of 10G Rel2 documentation, as
> well as knowing your settings with regard to NLS should allow you
> to come up with the full answer.

No I'm connecting to an existing 9.2 database, no "new" character sets involved (at least none of 10g R2) and the thin driver does not (or at least did not) use any NLS variables from the client. So I'm a bit puzzled why this does not work with the new driver

Thomas Received on Wed Nov 02 2005 - 12:35:54 CST