dean wrote:
> 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)
>> Puget Sound Oracle Users Groupwww.psoug.org- Hide quoted text -
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> We are using either Microsoft or Oracle providers for OLD DB.
Either doesn't count ... which one. <g> And its version.
--
Daniel A. Morgan
University of Washington
damorgan_at_x.washington.edu (replace x with u to respond)
Puget Sound Oracle Users Group
www.psoug.org
Received on Sat Sep 08 2007 - 17:17:55 CDT
