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Hi,
I'm a newbie when it comes to Oracle, but I was asked to check if an application could run with Oracle, so I installed Oracle XE. The application is an older VB6 app.
I installed Oracle XE and Client XE on the same XP machine as my application and checked that the database engine is running.
I fail to point out the database with the PromptNew dialog in
MSDASC.DataLinks. VB code:
Dim dataLink As New MSDASC.DataLinks
sDBConnection = dataLink.PromptNew 'Prompt for connection string
The only Oracle related providers in the list are
Microsoft OLE DB Provider for Oracle
and
Oracle Provider for OLE DB
The first one requires a Server Name in the next tab. I enter XE as it is
the name of my database, user system and it's password and test the
connection.
It says ORA-12154: TNS could not resolve the connect identifier.
The second one asks for Datasource. I enter XE again (perhaps wrong?) Again ORA-12154.
I don't want to require that the user sets up a DSN. Please help me - What is wrong here?
Regards,
Ove
Received on Tue May 16 2006 - 09:32:53 CDT