On Oct 5, 3:57 am, "Shakespeare" <what..._at_xs4all.nl> wrote:
> "EdStevens" <quetico_..._at_yahoo.com> schreef in berichtnews:1191511817.357947.19500_at_g4g2000hsf.googlegroups.com...
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> > On Oct 3, 1:58 pm, EdStevens <quetico_..._at_yahoo.com> wrote:
> >> Platform: Oracle 10.2 client on XP-Pro
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> > <snip>
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> > Solution found. Ripping out the \oracle directories and the \oracle
> > key from HKLM wasn't enough. There was still an entry for tns_admin
> > floating around in the system environment settings, and that was
> > pointing to my original instant_client location. Apparently the OUI
> > honors that and places the net config files there regardless of where
> > ORACLE_HOME is located. And being an environment variable, it took
> > precedence over the tns_admin in the registry when I opened a command
> > window to run sqlplus.
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> > When I did another un-install, delete oracle directories and registry
> > keys, *AND* clean up the system environment (My Computer, Properties)
> > the install went exactly as I expected and have always seen it
> > before.
>
> Right. That's exactly what the TNS_ADMIN environment variable is for...
>
> Shakespeare.
Well, I knew what tns_admin is *for*! But on Windoze systems I had
never seen it anywhere but the registry (HKLM\software\oracle). What
was eluding me was the fact that it was set somewhere I wasn't
expecting, leading to my purge of Oracle from the system being
incomplete, leading to the next installation being influenced by the
presence of environment settings being set from places I had never
previously observed them being set.
Received on Fri Oct 05 2007 - 07:41:03 CDT
