Odbc question

Can you use a 32 bit odbc driver on 32-bit OS (let's say Solaris 32) to access a 64-bit Oracle db running on 64-bit OS (let's say Solaris 64)? Thanks.

Assuming you can find an ODBC driver that runs on Solaris (these are normally third party products that you have to purchase separately), yes. A 32-bit driver on a 32-bit operating system can connect to a 64-bit database on a 64-bit operating system.
Justin
Distributed Database Consulting, Inc.
http://www.ddbcinc.com/askDDBC

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Oracle/Microsoft ODBC question

Hi,
I got in a situation where I cannot launch an application that's using Microsoft ODBC for Oracle driver after I installed an application that uses Oracle in Orahome90 driver.
The application that uses Microsoft driver will now display 'Connection to the database failed' after the other app (using Oracle in Orahome 9 driver) is installed.
Is there any known contention between the two drivers?
In searching for an answer, I've stumbled on an article that indicated that there are limitations on the current version of Microsoft ODBC Driver and OLE DB Provider for Oracle - aside from reading some replies in this forum that microsoft driver is not compatible with Oracle 9i... however, I am not sure if this is indeed the reason why I can't get the app (Microsoft driver) to launch... thoughts?
Next question, why am I able to launch the application that's using Microsoft driver at first?
Is there something I can do to make both this application (using different ODBC drivers) to run in my XP workstation?
Please advise.
Thanks!

If you only have one copy of the 9i client installed, then you don't have multiple Oracle Homes.
I would strongly advise you to move toward using the Oracle driver rather than the Microsoft driver on 9i clients. It may be possible to use the Microsoft driver, but it may cause obscure problems down the line. If changing drivers is an option, you're much better off doing so.
Justin
Distributed Database Consulting, Inc.
www.ddbcinc.com/askDDBC

Silly jdbc.odbc question

Hi,
I am trying to connect to a database with jdbc.odbc.
What do I put in my classpath? Do I have to download the jdbc.odbc driver?
I'm missing something stupid I know!
Thanks,
VB

VB -
you dont need to download the jdbc-odbc driver, as it comes packaged with the sdk. i think its in $JAVA_HOME/jre/rt.jar and is automatically in your classpath. You should be able to do a:
Class.forName("sun.jdbc.odbc.JdbcOdbcDriver");
to load the driver into memory. you can then use the java.sql.DriverManager to obtain your connection:
DriverManager.getConnection( dbConnString, dbUser, dbPass);
where your connect string looks something like:
"jdbc:odbc:<dsn>" (i.e. "jdbc:odbc:fooDB").
you'll need to create a system dsn on your windows machine, or follow whatever odbc configuration instructions if on a different os platform.
i hope this helps.. been a long time since ive used the odbc bridge. you should probably try and use a vendor supplied driver pure java driver. this gets rid of the need for client specific configuration steps.
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Java problem ODBC please help!!

Hi everyone,I am getting an error when i try to compile my java code it says :
SQL Problem: java SQLException: [Microsoft] [ODBC Driver Manager]
function sequense error
I need my code to print out questions and possible answers from my database of questions the code is looping through and printion out the first question and possible answers but then it only prints out the second question and then i get the above error??
Here is my code:
Thanks in advance.
james
import java.sql.Connection;
import java.sql.Statement;
import java.sql.DriverManager;
import java.sql.SQLException;
import java.sql.ResultSet;
public class DatabaseConnection
public static void main(String [] arguments)
Connection connection = null;
Statement statement = null;
ResultSet rs = null;
try
// Load the database drievrs. An ODBC: JDBC bridge
Class.forName("sun.jdbc.odbc.JdbcOdbcDriver");
System.out.println("Drivers loaded");
// Obtain connection to the database.
connection = DriverManager.getConnection("jdbc:odbc:Questions", "", "");
System.out.println("Connection established");
// Cerate statement to read and write to/from database.
statement = connection.createStatement();
System.out.println("Statement created");
//THE PROBLEM STARTS HERE
for (int i = 1; i < 7 ; i++){
rs = statement.executeQuery("SELECT * FROM Questions WHERE [Index] = "+i+" ");
// Get next row.
rs.next();
System.out.println(" ************************************************");
System.out.println("no: " + rs.getString("Index"));
System.out.println("Question : " + rs.getString("Questions"));
System.out.println("Answer A: " + rs.getString("A"));
System.out.println("Answer B: " + rs.getString("B"));
System.out.println("Answer C: " + rs.getString("C"));
rs.next();
// Close statement and conenction.
statement.close();
connection.close();
catch (ClassNotFoundException cnf)
System.out.println("Could not find class: " + cnf);
catch (SQLException sqle)
System.out.println("SQL problem: " + sqle);
//thanks everyone

I think your second next is causing a problem. Assuming there is only one row per index, the second next might generate the error. Try removing the second next. Incidentally, you are getting this error when you run the program not compile it; big difference.

ORACLE RDB ODBC

Hi All,
I have a web application built using ASP.Net and communicates with a Web services which uses oracle rdb odbc driver to connect to RDB server, but after a while I started getting this error when executing simple statements like insert or update against the database:
Data : System.Collections.ListDictionaryInternal
Source : SQRDB3.DLL
Message : ERROR [08S01] [Oracle][ODBC][Rdb] send() Ret -1 Err#10038 WSAENOTSOCK File descriptor not a socket
InnerException :
Error: System.Data.Odbc.OdbcException: ERROR [08S01] [Oracle][ODBC][Rdb] send() Ret -1 Err#10038 WSAENOTSOCK File descriptor not a socket
at System.Data.Odbc.OdbcConnection.HandleError(OdbcHandle hrHandle, RetCode retcode)
at System.Data.Odbc.OdbcCommand.ExecuteReaderObject(CommandBehavior behavior, String method, Boolean needReader, Object[] methodArguments, SQL_API odbcApiMethod)
at System.Data.Odbc.OdbcCommand.ExecuteReaderObject(CommandBehavior behavior, String method, Boolean needReader)
at System.Data.Odbc.OdbcCommand.ExecuteNonQuery()
Please Help Me,
Thanks in advance..

Hello,
Rdb ODBC questions are easily overseen in this forum. In general we recommend to post Rdb related questions in the communities at:
https://communities.oracle.com/portal/server.pt/community/rdb_product_family_on_openvms
There you are getting much faster a response because that site is watched by Oracle Rdb Engineering and Support.
In your special case: does this happen frequently, is that still a problem for you? In that case enable client logging and if the client log file contains a message like SQLSRV-E-IDLEUSERTIMEOUT then you might have just a too small idle user timeout for your SQL/Services service that you use for your ODBC connection. You can change that value easily:
SQLSRV> ALTER SERVICE <your service> IDLE_USER_TIMEOUT <new value in seconds>;
If that does not help then you can always log a Service Request with Oracle Support.
Regards
Wolfgang
Oracle Rdb Support

Excell via ODBC

Hi,
I have ported a aloder LV project from a Win3.11 engine
to a Win NT4
This project accesses .xls data via ODBC
Question : in ODBC access setting, folder "User DNS"
you must select a Workbook ( a *.xls file )
This means it accesses only this named file.
How to make ODBC access any in LV specified file without
reconfiguring the ODBC Data Sources ?
Or can LV rename a *.xls to a given constant name ? this would
solve my problem too
Thanks
Jean-Luc

Maybe this helps, allthough it's no exact awnser to your question (I
think..).
You can create, modify and read the ODBC sources through the registry:
for user dsn:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/SOFTWARE/ODBC/
All the available drivers are in ODBCINST.INI, all sources are in ODBC.INI.
You could modify a ODBC NSD's source file to point to the desired file.
Use regedit to debug.
Hope it helps,
Wiebe.
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> Hi,
>
> I have ported a aloder LV project from a Win3.11 engine
> to a Win NT4
>
> This project accesses .xls data via ODBC
>
> Question : in ODBC access setting, folder "User DNS"
> you must select a Workbook ( a *.xls file )
>
> This means it accesses only this named file.
>
> How t
o make ODBC access any in LV specified file without
> reconfiguring the ODBC Data Sources ?
>
> Or can LV rename a *.xls to a given constant name ? this would
> solve my problem too
>
> Thanks
>
> Jean-Luc
>
>

ORA-0312 Error

To all:
Hi! Anybody who is familiar with this error? "[Intersolv][ODBC Oracle Driver][Oracle]Error while trying to retrieve text for for error ORA-03121". I am using Oracle version 7.3 and Intersolv 16-bit ODBS Driver.
If you have any idea about this particular error, please let me know. Thank you, and I would really appreciate your help.
Please write e-mail me at this address: [email protected]
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XML Datasource Supported?

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Method not found Please help!!

import java.sql.Connection;
import java.sql.Statement;
import java.sql.DriverManager;
import java.sql.SQLException;
import java.sql.ResultSet;
import java.io.*;
public class SnappyDriver
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public int number[];
public void main(String [] arguments)throws IOException
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Statement statement = null;
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Class.forName("sun.jdbc.odbc.JdbcOdbcDriver");
System.out.println("Drivers loaded");
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connection = DriverManager.getConnection("jdbc:odbc:Questions", "", "");
System.out.println("Connection established");
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statement = connection.createStatement();
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// Close statement and conenction.
statement.close();
connection.close();
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 j++;
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You still have some misplaced {'s and }'s in there. Look carefully trough your code, and find them. (No, I am not doing it for you. It's not a difficult job, but it's kind of boring :) )
If you always are careful with the indendation, this kind of error is easier it avoid and easier to detect.

Question On How to Install Teradata ODBC on CF9 64-bit?

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After running into same problem with IBM's UDB/DB2 64-bit drivers, and after reading additional posts, I've come to the conclustion that CF9 64-bit does not support 64-bit drivers in an ODBC-Socket connection. And if you install/configure 32-bit drivers, they won't appear in CF9's drop-down list of available ODBC-Socket connections. It appears to only display 64-bit drivers, including the built-in ones (which I believe are mostly JDBC drivers). If anyone disagrees, please advise.
Yet, on a test server with 32-bit Windows 7 and 32-bit CF9, and 32-bit DB2 and Teradata drivers, everything works fine. Don't understand why this doesn't work on 64-bit platforms.
At work, we are upgrading our production servers from Win2K 32-bit to Win Server 2008 R2 64-bit. And upgrading our testing servers at our desks to Win7 64-bit. And switching the main database from Oracle and SQL Server to Teradata. (We do have about 4 Oracle DSNs, and 1 SQL Server DSN, and they all work fine using native Oracle/SQL Server drivers that come with CF9 64-bit). If I can't get the DB2 and Teradata (particularly the Teradata drivers) to work on this new Win Server 2008 R2 64-bit production server, we won't be able to run any of our ColdFusion programs.
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OPTIONS:
1. Un-install CF9 64-bit and and install CF9 32-bit on both Win Server 2008 R2 64-bit and Win 7 64-bit. Not sure if either of these 64-bit OS will run a 32-bit CF9 installation normally, without problems or errors. If this is the best way, will all existing Oracle and SQL Server DSNs need to be re-configured, and will those work properly?
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ASE ODBC driver related questions

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I've few questions about ASE ODBC driver. Can you please guide me.
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Best Regards

Thanks Paul.
This is not with SQLGetData. In fact, SQLGetData is working fine for me.
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howdy all , i have several questions which might have been documented , but not marked as supported so maybe someone could answer just a few of my questions here goes :
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- the clients connecting to the database is an older 8.1.6 (2) odbc client ( either running NT / 2000 / XP ) 32bit
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( either everybody has moved on or no-one else has experienced a similar situation )
what im trying to accomplish , is connecting a sharepoint server (2010 ) with sql (2008 ) with powerpivot
powerpivot reads data from the oracle server through an odbc connection to an excel file ( works fine under a workstation rolled out as 32 bit )
so my main concern is , what if i install the 10.2 client on my server 2008 connecting to the 8.1.7 database , what could be expected ?

user4724664 wrote:
howdy all , i have several questions which might have been documented , but not marked as supported so maybe someone could answer just a few of my questions here goes :
- we have an oracle 8.1.7 (p2 ) database with support running on linux 2.4
- the clients connecting to the database is an older 8.1.6 (2) odbc client ( either running NT / 2000 / XP ) 32bit
- the application which uses this database and odbc connection is damgaard axapta 2.5
i have read several documents that 10.2 oracle odbc client is supported connected to an older database, but i have not seen any documented related to my case
( either everybody has moved on or no-one else has experienced a similar situation )
what im trying to accomplish , is connecting a sharepoint server (2010 ) with sql (2008 ) with powerpivot
powerpivot reads data from the oracle server through an odbc connection to an excel file ( works fine under a workstation rolled out as 32 bit )
so my main concern is , what if i install the 10.2 client on my server 2008 connecting to the 8.1.7 database , what could be expected ?
I would think you could expect a world of headaches. Why, why, why do people insist on running software that hasn't been supported in the current millenium? Why, why, why do they upgrade everything except the database?
See MOS note 207303.1. It appears that your proposed combination is not supported.

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Hi ,
I am prasanna Undapalli,I have a question on ODBC driver connection creation.
Actually i installed OBIEE 11g in my system.I want to create a new ODBC connection at odbcad32.exe.While creating a OBDC connection,i am unable to find the oracle database name in the list...What is the problem..I am using windows 7 operating system..
Thanks,
prasanna.

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you might open this
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Pls mark correct or helpful

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If you give a person an Oracle user name and password, they're going to be able to connect via whatever application they'd like-- whether they're using Access via ODBC, SQL*Plus, or a custom application. Once they connect, they'll have whatever privileges you've granted them. Ideally, that would mean that users only have SELECT access and EXECUTE access on a set of stored functions and procedures they are authorized to run. If users have been given the keys to the kingdom as it were-- full INSERT, UPDATE, and DELETE privileges on every table-- you've got more fundamental problems.
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Just a simple question that I can't seem to able to find a clear
answer to anywhere on this site:
- Does Oracle provide libraries for the ODBC API under Linux or
any other Unix?
(And if yes, where do I find them in my Linux (v8.0.5EAP) or
Solaris (v8.0.3) Oracle distributions?)
I know ODBC is very much a Microsoft thing, but if you want to
write software that is largely platform-independent (and granted,
underlying database independent too), then ODBC for database
access is the best thing there is?
Other opinions?
Neven
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Neven (guest) wrote:
: Just a simple question that I can't seem to able to find a
clear
: answer to anywhere on this site:
: - Does Oracle provide libraries for the ODBC API under Linux or
: any other Unix?
: (And if yes, where do I find them in my Linux (v8.0.5EAP) or
: Solaris (v8.0.3) Oracle distributions?)
Check out OpenLink's UDBC - http://www.openlinksw.com/.
It's a connect-to-everything-from-everything-using-odbc
solution. They have a free license for 2 client machines and
10 connections.
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