Re: Forms 4.5 with Personal Oracle 8

John and Kelly,

The bequeath protocol does't work in between an Oracle 7 client and an Oracle 8 server. It says so in the (Personal) Oracle 8 server documentation and I believe it because I tried it myself (a hundred times at least) until I read the docs as a last resort. It's some time now since I worked on this one, so I can't remember precisely where in the docs. Just do a text file search on "bequeath" and ye shall find.

What does work is TCP/IP via the MS-loopback adapter under Windows NT. There is no loopback adapter for Windows 95 as far as I know ( I tried to find one on the web with no success). So you'll need Windows NT.

Then what you need to do is configure (modify) the tcp-loopback example on the Oracle 7 client side using "SQL NET easy configuration" as well as on the Oracle 8 server side with "Net8 easy config". Be sure to have the Net8 add-on
installed (install PO8 again).

Good luck,

Hans Heemskerk

John and Kelly Makuch wrote in message <354BD948.99E2D637_at_his.com>...
>I am trying to connect to a Personal Oracle 8 database using Oracle
>Forms 4.5 and SQL_Plus 3.1. They do not seem to recognize the
>"bequeath" (BEQ) protocol adapter. Is there another protocol I can use
>or am I SOL?
>
>John
>makuch_at_his.com
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Received on Mon May 04 1998 - 19:30:04 CEST