Re: Developer 2000 and 8.0.4 Install Problem

As Dan pointed out in his reply to this message, you do not require a separate oracle home directory for the two products. The main problem here is the age of the Developer software you are loading. Version 1.6.1 does indeed use a different version of SQLnet. Once you have successfully [Quoted] installed both products, you will find shortcut to "SQLnet Easy Config" in the Oracle for NT folder. Use this to configure your older version of SQLnet and you will be able to connect the Oracle8 server.

I would also recommend you upgrade to Developer 6 as it has significantly better features than version 1.6. You can get a development only version from http://technet.oracle.com

Happy Developing!

canoewho wrote in message ...
>I've installed Oracle 8.0.4 and verified that the DB works OK. I can
>connect with the sqlplus client on NT to Oracle 8 using the ANDREW_DB alias
>I created using the Net80 Admin tool. The Net80/tnsnames.ora entry looks
>like...
>ANDREW_DB.WORLD =
> (DESCRIPTION =
> (ADDRESS = (PROTOCOL = NMP)(SERVER = ANDREW)(PIPE = ORAPIPE))
> (CONNECT_DATA = (SID = ORCL))
> )
>
>I installed Developer 2000 1.6.1 into the ORACLE_HOME 8.0.4 directory. I
>could not get the forms designer to connect to the database. I noticed in
>the release notes later that you are not supposed to install both into the
>same ORACLE_HOME. It tells you to...
>Install DB
>Install Developer 2000
>Reinstall Required Support files
>
>I tried doing it this way but there is some service running core40.dll that
>prevents you from refreshing the support files and this is in spite of
>shutting down all the Oracle services that are running.
>
>I next tried installing into a new Oracle_HOME but all that happened is the
>8.0.4 software becomes disabled.
>
>Is there a way to run developer and the db from two distinct oracle homes
on
>the same NT box? Does this version of Developer 2000 work at all with this
>version of the database. It seems as if Oracle has switched to a new
>version of sql*net - Net80 but the tools are using something older. If
this
>is true then they should be shot. I have never had difficulties like this
>installing supposedly canned software.
>
>Any advice appreciated
>There is another tnsnames.ora in a Network directory in ORACLE_HOME. The
>other entry that is there is
>ANDREW.world =
> (DESCRIPTION =
> (ADDRESS_LIST =
> (ADDRESS =
> (COMMUNITY = nmp.world)
> (PROTOCOL = NMP)
> (Server = ORACLE)
> (Pipe = ORAPIPE)
> )
> )
> (CONNECT_DATA = (SID = ORCL)
> )
> )
>
>
>
>
Received on Thu Oct 28 1999 - 16:25:26 CEST