Re: Oracle ODBC connection and VB4
Date: 1997/05/03
Message-ID: <336B67E0.35C_at_upw.com>#1/1
Mark McCubbin wrote:
>
> I need my VB4 application to "talk" to the Oracle Local Database that
> resides on my desktop PC. When I try to open the database from my VB4
> app, I get the error message "Couldn't find installable ISAM."
>
> To setup the data source I double-clicked the ODBC icon in Control
> Panel, clicked the Add button, chose "Oracle ODBC Driver for Rdb," and
> keyed in "Local Database" for data source name.
>
> The connect code I use in my VB code is
>
> sConnect = "C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM\ODBC32.DLL;UID=SCOTT;PWD=TIGER"
>
> ' Get ISAM error message on next line...
> Set dbPersonInfo = OpenDatabase("Local Database", False, False,
> sConnect)
>
> If you have any advice, I would appreciate your assistance. Thank you.
>
> Mark