Re: Connecting Delphi / WfW3.11 to Oracle / HP-UX sql server?

Hi,

   We have the same configuration and it works fine. We have Oracle 7 running on HP-UX and have Delphi C/S clients running on Win 3.1, Windows '95 and Windows NT. I am now trying to get it going under OS/2 Warp Connect 3.0, but IBM is well in a world of their own. I have to figure out what all these blasted acronyms mean and read lots of manuals first, I guess.

My only complaint is that I cannot get seem to get Delphi to work with Oracle's SQL*NET version 2.0 connect strings. Those are the ones that use the TNSNAMES file to alias the the data base names. However, everything works fine using SQL*NET version 1 connect strings. Those are the one's that look like T:hostname:database.

We had some problems initially with having active queries connected to Oracle while running in the IDE. The solution was to keep all Oracle queries inactive while debugging. Luckily for us, we only access Oracle occasionally for batch moves into a local Paradox data base, so extensive debugging with active Oracle connections is not really needed.

Regards,

   Rick Flanders

stico!hoover_at_dim.chemie.uni-bielefeld.de (Uwe Schuerkamp) wrote:
>
>Dear netters,
>
>we're trying to connect to an Oracle Sql server running on an HP UX
>host using Delphi 1.0 under Windows 3.11. We have tried to find out
>about how to do this with the Borland support line, but people there
>have been extremely unhelpful telling us to obtain a valid contract
>first before they would answer such questions.
>
>All we would like to know if it is possible with an out-of-the-box
>delphi installation (or out-of-the-CD, rather :-) to access the SQL
>server running on the HP-UX machine. It has an entry in /etc/services
>on port 1525 which points to the name "orasrv".
>
>Please reply by email if possible as I do not follow these groups
>regularly. I'll summarize if there's general interest.
>
>
>
>Thanks in advance for your time,
>
> Uwe.
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Received on Mon Nov 27 1995 - 00:00:00 CET