On Sep 7, 12:45 pm, DA Morgan <damor..._at_psoug.org> wrote:
> dean wrote:
> > 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.
>
> That is not an Oracle issue ... contact Microsoft. Whose ODBC driver
> are you using?
> --
> Daniel A. Morgan
> University of Washington
> damor..._at_x.washington.edu (replace x with u to respond)
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We are using either Microsoft or Oracle providers for OLD DB.
Received on Sat Sep 08 2007 - 15:32:47 CDT
