Error while creating database - Cannot load backend library 'oci.dll'

Question

Hi all,
I am newbie to Timesten imdb (in memory database). I do not wish to use oracle rdbms.
I have installed the Timesten IMDB on Win2003.
E:\TimesTen\tt70_32\bin>ttVersion.exe
TimesTen Release 7.0.5.0.0 (32 bit NT) (tt70_32:17000) 2008-04-05T00:54:16Z
Instance admin: m4sadm
Instance home directory: e:\TimesTen\tt70_32
Daemon home directory: e:\TimesTen\tt70_32\srv\info
While installing, I followed the viewlet at: [http://www.oracle.com/technology/products/timesten/viewlets/tt70_install_win_viewlet_swf.html]
Now, I am planning to create a database, and so following the viewlet at: [http://www.oracle.com/technology/products/timesten/viewlets/tt70_create_db_win_cc_viewlet_swf.html]
However, when I give the command (according to the viewlet), I get the following error:
Command> select * from v$version;
5102: Cannot load backend library 'oci.dll' for Cache Connect. OS error message '<empty>'.
The command failed.
Can anyone provide pointers to resolve this?

Answer 1

I'm guessing you chose No to the install question about using Cache Connect to Oracle? This would cause certain libraries not to be installed at install time, specifically libraries that would enable you to use TimesTen Cache Connect to cache data from Oracle tables.
The table "v$version" that you use in your select
select * from v$version
only exists on an Oracle RDBMS. It doesn't exist on TimesTen. Moreover the second viewlet you refer to is about using the TimesTen Cache Connect feature to cache tables from Oracle RDBMS. If you're not interested in using Oracle RDBMS, as you say, it would be my assumption that you're also not interested in using the TimesTen Cache Connect feature? So I'm a little confused here about your intentions. Are you interested in using TimesTen as a standalone datastore, or do you want to use it to cache data from tables located in an Oracle RDBMS?
Thanks.