Path: newssvr20.news.prodigy.com!newsmst01.news.prodigy.com!prodigy.com!news-FFM2.ecrc.net!newsfeed.vmunix.org!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!thuis.ronr.NL!not-for-mail From: Ronald Rood Newsgroups: comp.databases.oracle.server Subject: Re: DBLINK between Oracle 7 and Oracle 9 Date: Mon, 2 Feb 2004 19:45:24 +0100 Organization: None At All Lines: 20 Message-ID: <0001HW.BC4459540193C321F02845B0@news.cis.dfn.de> References: <5b4dae09.0402020923.3e766175@posting.google.com> Reply-To: devnull@ronr.nl NNTP-Posting-Host: thuis.ronr.nl (80.126.99.127) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: news.uni-berlin.de 1075747540 30490939 80.126.99.127 ([128511]) X-Orig-Path: not-for-mail User-Agent: Hogwasher/3.1 (Carbon/OSX) Xref: newssvr20.news.prodigy.com comp.databases.oracle.server:253482 On Mon, 2 Feb 2004 18:23:45 +0100, Abe wrote (in message <5b4dae09.0402020923.3e766175@posting.google.com>): > Hi, > > I'm trying to acces data on an Ora 7 DB from an Ora 9 DB. Using > Enterprise manager I've created a db link which should provide this > functionality. However, when I try to test it I get and error message > "The Database link is not active". Can anyone assist. > > Thanks > Abe Assuming that you use 9i rel 2: you can't connect to a v 7 database. -- With kind regards, Ronald http://ronr.nl/unix-dba