Re: 8.0.5 client to 9.2 database?

From: Peter Sylvester <peters_no_spam_please_at_mitre.org>
Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2003 14:18:19 -0500
Message-ID: <bnro5r$j19$1@newslocal.mitre.org>

As a recap on the issue, it turned out that the 9.2 database was built using one of the UTF character sets for the standard character set, and the 8.0 based client evidently does not support this. Changing to USASCII7 or the WE8MSWIN1252 set on the server side appeared to solve the problem.

It also turns out that the 8.0 Forms runtime can utilize the 9.2 client installation, although I didn't end up going this way.

Thanks for the help.

--Peter

Peter Sylvester wrote:
> I'm trying to connect a 8.0.5 Windows client (under W2K, running older
> forms app on client) to a 9.2.0.3 database server on Solaris.
>
> Is this possible? I could not get it to work - got various TNS related
> errors depending on what was in tnsnames.ora.
>
> I was able to get the 8.0.5 client to connect to an 8.1.7 database on
> the same Solaris server. I used the net80 Assistant, as I know there is
> some sensitivity to formatting in the earlier 8.X releases.
>
> thanks,
> --Peter
>
Received on Thu Oct 30 2003 - 13:18:19 CST