What version of 8.i on W2K? 8.17 I believe is certified on W2K and not
earlier which could be your problem.
<blazej75_at_my-deja.com> wrote in message news:9015jv$d3t$1_at_nnrp1.deja.com...
> Hi everybody,
>
> THIS IS URGENT!
>
> We are developping an application that uses OLE DB to connect to
> different databases. One of them is Oracle. Currently we use
> the Microsoft's MDAC 2.6 OLE DB Oracle provider and we are having
> problems (we use Oracle 8i and Windows 2000).
> Problem description: we randomly get an error message saying:
> "Test connection failed because of an error in initializing provider.
> Oracle error occured, but error message could not be retrieved from
> Oracle."
> The weirdest thing that the Windows itself also sometimes displays that
> error if I create a UDL file, specify the proper database information
> and then click Test Connection. As far as we have investigated the
> problem, there's no rule. It works in more than 50% cases but
> sometimes just doesn't. It's not our application that's causing this
> problem because sometimes the Test Connection button from the UDL file's
> properties gives this error message right after logging in.
>
> Does anybody have an idea how to solve this problem?
>
> Last question: Oracle also provides a OLE DB provider. We should
> be able to get it from
> ftp://ftp.oracle.com/pub/www/otn/other/ole-oo4o/OraOLEDB_81620.exe
> (or from the Web at:
> http://technet.oracle.com/software/tech/nt/ole_db/software_index.htm)
> but the above link seems broken since a week.
> Does somebody have an idea where to get this file from?
>
> Regards
>
> Michal Blazejczyk, Imaging Research
>
> PS. Please reply to address: michal.blazejczyk_at_imaging.brocku.ca !
>
>
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Received on Wed Nov 29 2000 - 19:55:38 CST
