Re: Personnel Oracle

open up the Windows group window called

        Oracle7 ODBC

Click on the ODBC Administrator icon and set up the driver.

Three quarters through the PO7 install I had to clear an informational popup to run the ODBC administrator to install the driver.

A J M Knight (ccsajmk_at_bath.ac.uk) wrote:

:> I have installed Personel Oracle on a standalone PC, however when I
:> attempt to start up the database from the Database Manager I get the
:> following message:
 

:> ORA-03121: no interface driver connected - function not performed.
 

:> Now I assume that I do not need to install SQL*Net to run Personel Oracle
:> on a standalone machine and the installation makes not reference to it.
 

:> I have a database alias of Oracle7=2:
 

:> In my autoexec.bat the Path statement contains 'c:\orawin\bin'
 

:> My oracle.ini contains the following amongst other things:
 

:> LOCAL=2:
:> SQLNET DBNAME oracle7=2:
 

:> From that I assume that oracle should be able to locate the database but
:> it appears to me that Oracle expects some driver to be loaded. Should I be
:> loading a device driver in my config.sys somewhere. I have looked and there is no reference to any oracle drivers in my config.sys
 

:> Any help would be gratefully received.
 

:> Thanks
 

:> Adam Knight
:> ccsajmk_at_bath.ac.uk

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