Hello,

I have a problem using Windows 2000, BDE 5.01 with Oracle-8i-Client
8.1.7.:
No connection from BDE to Oracle is possible. I use Oracle native driver

with DLL32=SQLORA8.DLL, VENDOR INIT=OCI.DLL

I got the BDE update 5.11 (bde511ge.exe) and executed it,
but can't see any changes (the BDE shows version 5.01).

Does anybody knows what I can do to solve the problem ?

Thanks for your response.

"No connection is possible" tells us nothing.  Are you getting error
messages?  Which ones?  BDE? Oracle? Does the SQL*Plus connection work?

John Pierce

Sorry, I was some days offline. The connect problem is solved. There was a
problem
in the network hardware of the PC, so the connection was often lost but not
always.

But there is a BDE-error-message (10019 - bersetzungsfehler-der Wert liegt
nicht im gltigen Bereich, may be in English: Translate error, the value is
not in valid range) when I want to open
"Tables" of an Oracle8-database in SQL-Explorer. It works with an Oracle7
database.

In BdeAdmin at Configuration/Driver/Oracle are the entries:
DLL32=SQLORA8.DLL, VENDOR INIT=OCI.DLL

I'm still wondering about the BDE update 5.11 (bde511ge.exe):
I executed it but can't see any changes (the BdeAdmin shows version 5.01).

The SQLORA8.DLL is from 16.06.2000 (updated).

Klaus Schaarchmidt

The BDE Admin has not changed in the latest version, so it doesn't
show.  Go to the configuration tab, then to configuration, right-click
and pick version.

My strong advice to anyone using Oracle is to s{*word*99} the BDE and get
Direct Oracle Access (www.allroundautomations.nl).

John Pierce

      and pick version. <<
Ok, there I can see the version 5.1.1.1.

I will look at Direct Oracle Access (www.allroundautomations.nl).

Thanks !
Klaus Schaarschmidt