From: Martin Haltmayer <Martin.Haltmayer@d2mail.de>
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Subject: Re: Connect to Oracle 7.3 db with OCI8
Date: Sun, 11 Nov 2001 09:11:35 +0100
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Hi Ruud,

I heard that OCI7 is different from OCI8. You need sort of adapter or wrapper
procedures.

Sorry I cannot supply more details as I did not do it myself.

Regards,

Martin



Ruud van den Brink wrote:
> 
> Hi Folks,
> 
> I set up the appropriate libraries to get an Oracle client working under
> Linux.
> I set up the TNSNAMES file, etc. I can connect perfect to an Oracle 8
> database using Linux SQL+ and also using PHP.
> 
> However, I also want to connect to an Oracle 7 database. A connection to the
> Oracle 7 database results in an "ORA-01005: null password given;" error,
> both in SQL+ and PHP. I _do_ supply a username and password, and they're
> both correct (If I change one of them, the error message changes to
> username/password incorrect). Again: connecting to an Oracle 8 database
> works _perfect_ with the same configuration.
> 
> Does somebody have a solution??
> 
> Regards,
> Ruud.