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    WSgbanks
    AskWoody Lounger
    September 9, 2009 at 11:01 am #462407

    I’m geeting an error when I try to create a user dsn data source which I was using to ldo an OBDC link to an oracle table. This works fine on my old pc but for some reason on my new pc I get the error. Any thoughts? Thanks…

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    • WBell
      AskWoody_MVP
      September 9, 2009 at 4:52 pm #1176842

      It looks like my original response went AWOL – not sure what that is about. In any event, what is the OS on your new PC? Vista, Windows 7 and Win 2008 Server are more picky about DSNs – the error message suggests the connect string has a problem, but I’m not conversant with ODBC links to Oracle tables. You may want to try one of the Oracle forums and see if someone there can help.

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    • WSgbanks
      AskWoody Lounger
      September 14, 2009 at 8:28 am #1177264

      OS is XP.

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    • WBell
      AskWoody_MVP
      September 15, 2009 at 8:54 am #1177395

      This is strictly a guess, but do you have the right ODBC driver installed for the version of Oracle that you are using? By default a new system typically doesn’t have Oracle ODBC drivers installed, so you have to go find the driver from Oracle and install it first.

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