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Is the Oracle 10g Client compatiable with a 8g Server ?

Hey guys,

I have tried to connect to a Oracle 8 server using a 10 g Client and receive this error

I have put up this issue on other forums and they have informed me tht it is not compatible ......

However it is compatible with a 9 server .....

If it aint compatible then what the fix if I have a 8 server and i need to migrate an application which currently uses 8 .... to the same application which would in its new release need a 10 Server ?

***********ERROR***********

ORA-12705: invalid or unknown NLS parameter value specified

***********ERROR***********

Has anyone received this error message before ?

Please inform me of any solutions

Sherwin.

schwertner

If you try to use 8 and 8i software against 9i and 10g
possibly you will run into a problem.
The problem is that in 9i and 10g are introduced new
character sets (AL32UTF8 that stands for 4-bytes Unicode).
these character sets are not known in the old good Oracle 8
and Oracle 8i world .....

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Stephen Lappin

Alternatively, as long as you are not using new datatype is 10g, you could possible use a Oracle9i client to connect to both Oracle8i and Oracle10g :)

schwertner

What is the NLS_LANG entry (in the Registry or environment variables) of the computer your Client is running? AL32UTF8 is not good one....