Re: ODBC

73125.1040_at_compuserve.com (Mark Tomlinson) wrote:

>>You don't need a DOS search path anymore in Windows 95. When properly
>>installed the register database is updated with the path information.
>
>Wrong, search path still needs to include Orawwin95 so that SQL*Net
>dlls can be located, they are dynamically loaded and unloaded by the
>OCI layer, (which the ODBC driver will use), and it does not use the
>registry for anything.
>You do not need to include the path for the ODBC drivers, because that
>WILL be picked up out of the registry.

This is very correct. I had a fun time figuring out that some of our boxes' Path statements were being truncated after the Netware login script did its thing. ORAWIN95\BIN was gone from these machines and as a result, we'd get a message when the ODBC driver tried to load.

All is well these days.

jmayes Received on Thu May 30 1996 - 00:00:00 CEST