Re: Oracle 7 => Oracle 8

In article <cjQS5.77$b9.4411_at_nreader1.kpnqwest.net>,   "Phil" <phg3113_at_hotmail.com> wrote:
> Hi !
>
> I was using Oracle 7 on a server. Then we needed to install version
 8.
> I've tried to uninstall version 7 but not all files were deleted (c:
 \orant
> ...). And I didn't succeeded to uninstall the "installer". (...)
> I've installed oracle 8 in another directory, on another drive.
 Everyting
> was running well. Via Odbc, I can access my Oracle 8 DB. But with
 another
> application, I can only access my older Oracle 7 DB's, but I can't
 'see' any
> DB registerd in the TNSNAMES.ORA in Oracle8.
> How can I tell an application to 'look' into the 'new' tnsnames.ora
 created
> with Oracle 8, than into the older oracle environnement
>
> Thanks in advance
>
> Phil
>
>

set TNS_ADMIN in hklm\software\oracle to the correct directory.

Hth,

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