Re: OO4O: SQL*net or Net8

Pascal,

OO4O rel 2.3.x is built using the Oracle8 OCI and has dependencies on the Net8 DLL's. Do you have any reason to use SQL*net to connect to an Oracle8 database ? If so, you might be better off using the 2.2.x OO4O.

Chris.

Pascal Dussart wrote:
>
> Hello experts,
>
> Why is it that my VB5-application (using Oracle Objects for OLE V2.3 to
> connect to a remote
> Oracle 8.0.5 database) works fine when both Net8 and SQL*Net are
> installed on my Windows
> NT 4.0 workstation, but *not* after Net8 was removed?!
>
> When Net8 is not present run time-error 429 is raised (ActiveX component
> can't create object)
> whilst trying to execute the following statement:
>
> Set OraSession = CreateObject("OracleInProcServer.XOraSession")
>
> Furthermore, I noticed that during the installation of OO4O 2.3 (using
> the Oracle Installer app)
> net8 was installed without asking...
>
> The OO4O 2.3 Help-file - under the topic "Introduction/Requirements" -
> states that at run time
> OO4O relies on SQL*Net 1.* or 2.* There's no mention of net8.
>
> I'm puzzled here :-(
>
> Tia,
>
> Pascal
>
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> [Pascal Dussart [Volvo Europa Truck] B-9041 Ghent]
Received on Tue Mar 16 1999 - 00:00:00 CET