Microsoft Data Link Error

From: dean <deanbrown3d_at_yahoo.com>
Date: Thu, 06 Sep 2007 14:07:50 -0700
Message-ID: <1189112870.277242.135570@r29g2000hsg.googlegroups.com>

Hello all,

10.2.0.1.0 / Windows XP Pro SP2

I am getting an error in opening an ADO connection to Oracle 10g using the above client. Here is the message:

Microsoft Data Link Error:
"Test connection failed because of an error in initializing provider. Oracle error occurred, but the error message could not be retreived from Oracle."

The other people here suspect this is a MDAC issue, which has been solved in the past by re-installing this component of Windows. However, this version of windows already has SP2 installed, and it won't allow the MDAC componnents to be re-installed.

Does anyone have any further light they could shed on this particula problem? There is a mention of the MS providers NOT working on the latest versions of the client, so we could unistall the current client and install 10.1 instead. Received on Thu Sep 06 2007 - 16:07:50 CDT