Re: Database LInk - V6 to V7 -- is it possible?

From: Cor de Waaij <C.deWaaij_at_PTT-Telecom.NL>
Date: 1996/05/15
Message-ID: <4ncn2e$9nl_at_hdxx05.telecom.ptt.nl>#1/1


Only for the latest v6 (0.37...) VAX/VMS is a patch!

In article <1996May13.132015.487_at_ns2>, vermaat_at_gemini.tfdl.agro.nl says:
>
>In article <4mnn85$qqc_at_soap.news.pipex.net>, jb85_at_dial.pipex.com (Simon) writes:
>>kissing_at_oneworld.owt.com (Bruce Kissinger) wrote:
>>
>>>I'm having problems trying to set up a database link from an Oracle 6
>>>database to an Oracle 7. Does anyone know if this is supposed to
>>>work?
 

>>>I've been successfull setting up a link from V6 to V6 and also from V7
>>>to V6, but not from V6 to V7.
 

>>>Any help would be greatly appreciated.
>>
>>Bruce, this is a known Oracle bug - Talk to Oracle support to obtain
>>the correct patch for your system. In my case (HP-UX environment) the
>>patch number was 236812, but YMMV.
>
>Note also that is is no longer possible to create a db link between v6 and v7.1
>and higher. That is no bug, but a development decision...
>
>
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Received on Wed May 15 1996 - 00:00:00 CEST

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