Re: Visual Basic 4 & Oracle 7

From: Keith Majkut <kmajkut_at_netcom.com>
Date: 1996/08/16
Message-ID: <kmajkutDw7t4z.HD5_at_netcom.com>#1/1


In article <3213BBA0.1848_at_interramp.com>, Rick Root <ric_at_interramp.com> wrote:
>I'm currently getting into programming at my company with Visual Basic
>4.0
>
>We have an Oracle 7.1 database running at 16-bit due to Peoplesoft
>recommendations (we're using Peoplesoft 3, and they only certify
>Oracle at 16-bit for some reason).
>
>I am unable to install the Visigenic 32-bit driver that comes with
>Visual Basic 4.0 for Oracle databases due to some missing files,
>which it claims are required.
>
>I am, however, able to use the 16-bit Oracle drivers that I have
>installed on my system (through Crystal Reports Professional) when
>I'm running 16-bit Visual Basic 4.0. That's not particularly
>acceptible, because I want to run 32-bit Visual Basic.
>
>I'm also unable to find any particularly good information about
>3rd party controls to access Oracle directly (we have a control
>provided by Apex Software to access Oracle directly - it worked
>under Visual Basic 3.0, but doesn't seem to work under VB4.0 - or
>perhaps it's not working with the current database version we have.)
>
>Anyway.. I've heard about something called "OCI" (Oracle Call
>Interface?) which may be helpful, but if anyone out there can
>recommend a plan of action for me to be able to access our
>Oracle database from 32-bit Visual Basic 4.0, I would appreciate the
>help! OCI, 3rd party controls, solutions to using the Visigenic
>ODBC driver.. whatever..
Some things to note.
In your case you probably want to just get the ODBC driver working. You need to get an updated version. When VB4 went out, ODBC drivers were based on Ora7.1 client libs which were never made available on Win95. Newer ones should be Ora7.2 based which are on Win95.
>
> - Rick Root
> BookCrafter's, Inc.
Received on Fri Aug 16 1996 - 00:00:00 CEST

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