Re: Oracle Client for 32 bit and 64 bit coexist

From: DA Morgan <damorgan_at_psoug.org>
Date: Fri, 22 Aug 2008 09:54:16 -0700
Message-ID: <1219424045.726200_at_bubbleator.drizzle.com>


P.L. wrote:
> Dear Experts,
>
> We met an issue with Oracle client, and hope you could give us some
> advice.
>
> On our Windows 2003 64 bit servers, currently we have Oracle Client 32
> bit installed using by an application. However, running our MS.NET
> programs on x64 Windows require Oracle client for 64 bit installed.
> Otherwise, an error would be given:
>
> "Exception: Attempt to load Oracle client libraries threw
> BadImageFormatException. This problem will occur when running in 64
> bit mode with the 32 bit Oracle client components installed."
>
> Is that possible to install both 32 bit Oracle client and 64 bit
> Oracle client on the same server so that different programs could talk
> to different Oracle clients?
>
> Or any other solutions would be highly appreciated.
>
> Thanks a lot,
>
> P.L.

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Received on Fri Aug 22 2008 - 18:54:16 CEST

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