Re: Developer 2000 and 8.0.4 Install Problem

There is no need to install Dev2K and Ora 8.0.4 in two different oracle homes. Try to copy tnsnames.ora from $ORA_HOME/net80/ to $ORA_HOME/NETWORK. On my instalation it works.

Daniel Lisiecki
lis9_at_kki.net.pl

canoewho <vireality_at_iprimus.ca> wrote in message news:IxOR3.27012$Jp4.45201_at_news20.bellglobal.com...
> I've installed Oracle 8.0.4 and verified that the DB works OK. I can
> connect with the sqlplus client on NT to Oracle 8 using the ANDREW_DB
alias
> I created using the Net80 Admin tool. The Net80/tnsnames.ora entry looks
> like...
> ANDREW_DB.WORLD =
> (DESCRIPTION =
> (ADDRESS = (PROTOCOL = NMP)(SERVER = ANDREW)(PIPE = ORAPIPE))
> (CONNECT_DATA = (SID = ORCL))
> )
>
> I installed Developer 2000 1.6.1 into the ORACLE_HOME 8.0.4 directory. I
> could not get the forms designer to connect to the database. I noticed in
> the release notes later that you are not supposed to install both into the
> same ORACLE_HOME. It tells you to...
> Install DB
> Install Developer 2000
> Reinstall Required Support files
>
> I tried doing it this way but there is some service running core40.dll
that
> prevents you from refreshing the support files and this is in spite of
> shutting down all the Oracle services that are running.
>
> I next tried installing into a new Oracle_HOME but all that happened is
the
> 8.0.4 software becomes disabled.
>
> Is there a way to run developer and the db from two distinct oracle homes
on
> the same NT box? Does this version of Developer 2000 work at all with
this
> version of the database. It seems as if Oracle has switched to a new
> version of sql*net - Net80 but the tools are using something older. If
this
> is true then they should be shot. I have never had difficulties like this
> installing supposedly canned software.
>
> Any advice appreciated
> There is another tnsnames.ora in a Network directory in ORACLE_HOME. The
> other entry that is there is
> ANDREW.world =
> (DESCRIPTION =
> (ADDRESS_LIST =
> (ADDRESS =
> (COMMUNITY = nmp.world)
> (PROTOCOL = NMP)
> (Server = ORACLE)
> (Pipe = ORAPIPE)
> )
> )
> (CONNECT_DATA = (SID = ORCL)
> )
> )
>
>
>
>
Received on Thu Oct 28 1999 - 08:44:01 CEST