Few points to consider.
1. If possible, use Microsoft ODBC for oracle.
2. If the above does not work, try to create USER DSN instead of connection string to check the compatibility, if this works, it can certainly be worked using connection string
I am using a simple application to check the connection from VB6 to Oracle 10g and I getting this error and these are the connection parameters I entered as
Global Const Oracle_Conn= "Provider=OraOLEDB.Oracle;
and this the code I wrote for fetching the data . Can anyone please tell me where I am going wrong as earlier I had another issue so I un-installed Oracle and re-installed it but since then
I am getting this porblem. Anyhelp would be greatly appreciated .
Thanks
Radhs
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by: abd00nPosted on 2009-02-24 at 10:45:22ID: 23724758
Hi,
Where is the string Oracle_Conn?
You have to make cnn.connectionstring = (something) before openning. Isn't it!
and this you have to SET it like this:
SET cnn = New ADODB.Connection
.. not to define it like the recordset.
..
Verify if this the reason! Otherwise I have to go to the manual to refresh the proper procedure.
Regards;;