Re: 16-bit oracle under Win2k

I just cheated is what I did.

Oracle Network Manager was a 16 bit app and never upgraded (because Net8 was coming.....someday); so I had a dual boot with ONM under Win 3.11 and Reflections TCP/IP and SQLNET 16 bit, etc etc, just so I could gen our network.

Only a fool or very brave person would build a multi-server, multi-instance, multi-datacenter network with Oracle Names and try to do it by hand. In fact, I don't know it's possible as the network map lives in the DB as well as locally stored files on the joyous and cheerful senior Oracle DBA / architect's PC; which by this time grew like fungus into a server-sized monster.

And the other boot was NT, and everything else I used (MSO, Oracle D&D, OEM, Reflections, Oracle RDBMS, etc.)

Making anything 16 bit run A-OK under NT or NT/2000 is not something I think I would enjoy overly. I had a ton of problems with Network Manager; the early Windows versions of Designer, especially during reverse engineering, would crash routinely. After 6 hours or so. Oracle Support said "oh, try picking less tables at a time, that might help".

sigh

Well, good luck. Without a true 16 bit environment instead of one simulated under NT/x, my prayers are with you.

RSH. "Marek Zyskowski" <mzyskowski_at_aptilon.com> wrote in message news:4Z9h8.26025$X2.270945_at_nnrp1.uunet.ca...
> I did this before. I was using a 16 bit Oracle Driver on Windows 98. In my
> case the OS version of TCP/IP needed to be downgraded.
>
> There may be a similar option for Windows 2000. It took a lot of
> experimentation to get it right.
>
> Marek Zyskowski
> mzyskowski_at_aptilon.com
>
> "John" <jriker1_at_yahoo.com> wrote in message
> news:e6bb5a8d.0203050831.5642018a_at_posting.google.com...
> > Ok, before I get yelled at, I have no choice on this. My company is
> > utilizing a 16-bit Visual Basic 3 application and everyone is being
> > upgraded to Win2k. One time I had my system running successfully with
> > the 16-bit oracle client drivers, now after a reinstall of the system,
> > I keep getting GPF errors. Since I got it working once on this
> > machine, I know it's doable. Can someone explain to me how to get the
> > 16-bit oracle drivers to work on Win2k? Thanks.
> >
> > JR
>
>
Received on Wed Mar 06 2002 - 12:28:23 CST