Re: Oracle ODBC and Excel

From: mark tomlinson <marktoml_at_gdi.net>
Date: 1998/01/27
Message-ID: <34d103c6.65838430_at_newshost.us.oracle.com>#1/1


On Sat, 24 Jan 1998 20:03:08 +0100, "Bent Gregersen" <beg_at_bigfoot.com> wrote:

>Hej Everyone
>
>Does anyone have experience with the ORACLE ODBC driver for 7.2 and Excel
>7.0. I have installed the ODBC driver and I'm able to use it with Access
>7.0, but when I try to use it with File Source Name in Excel it is unable to
>locate the Oracle host. I am using SQL*Net normally to connect to the
>database on a UNIX machine with TCP/IP and that's working OK.
>
The first version of the Oracle provided driver that actually supported FILE DSNs was 2.0.3.1.14, (I think - build number may be a bit off). Either way, it wasn't until a 7.3 release of the driver, (this works just fine with the current 2.5.3.x release).

mark Received on Tue Jan 27 1998 - 00:00:00 CET

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