Oracle 10g client and Outlook Address Book

I have looked everywhere that I can think of, and nobody seems to have an answer to this problem. I support an extensive VB6 application, and one piece of functionality, which has been working without problems using Oracle 8i and 9i client, is now having problems when we use it on a client with 10g client installed.
The functionality in question is the ability to click a button that opens the user's Outlook Global Address Book, and return the e-mail address of the address selected. When the application is initially opened, the address book opens without problem. Once the user connects to Oracle (from within the application), from that point on, until the application is closed and restarted, clicking the button to open the address book produces the not-so-helpful error message "This application has failed to start because BJABLR32.dll was not found. Re-installing the application may fix this problem." The .dll is present, and the error only occurs AFTER an Oracle connection has been opened. I'm using an ADODB connection to connect to Oracle.
I have tried closing the connection, and setting the connection object to nothing, but this doesn't seem to make any difference. The Oracle connection appears to be working fine, the recordsets that are returned have the correct data in them, and updates perform correctly as well.
I have a sample application (about 175 lines of code) that I can use to consistantly reproduce the error.
If anyone can shine some light on this, it would be greatly appreciated. If this needs to be posted to a different forum, please let me know that as well. This forum seemed to be the closest match that I could find for this problem.

I am having the same problem, did you find an answer? other than resetting the Path, I shouldn't change all the client machines path

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Edited by: 832285 on Jan 29, 2011 10:08 AM
Edited by: 832285 on Jan 29, 2011 10:10 AM

I have formatted my hard drive since my first post. I was running window 64 bit with a higher version of the ODAC and that proved to crash my machine with faulty error messages about memory. I have reverted to a previous version of the ODAC tools and everything works very smooth now. Still the connection time is consistently 20 seconds or longer on the first attempt.
Just a little more information.. I am currently taking a college course with 15 other students, as you can tell by the impersonal machine name, where programming using visual studio 2008, and Oracle 10g xe is expected. All of us are using a 64 bit environment and we all have difficulties cutting down the load time of making the first connection to Oracle. Some people are longer making the connection, but none are shorter.
One other note. After the first connection is made, taking 20 or more seconds, and is closed, all subsequent openings of the connection are instantaneous, for all of us.
If there is ANYTHING more I can get for you, please let me know. With my environment stable as it is, I will not need to format or change any information for the foreseeable future.
Here is the information you requested
1 The connection method I am using, I have chosen the manual connection for you, however the delay exists if the connection is made through the GUI as well.
Historically, I am getting slow connection speeds through adding the connection through the GUI or by a manual connection. Here is how I am doing it manually. I have the connection being created in 20 seconds, which is the best I can get.
Imports Oracle.DataAccess.Client
Also included project reference: oracle.dataaccess / version 2.111.6.20
    Private Sub Form1_Load(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles MyBase.Load
        Dim connString As String = "Data Source=XE;User Id=abc;Password=abc;"
        Dim con As OracleConnection = New OracleConnection()
        con.ConnectionString = connString
        Try
            con.Open()
            MessageBox.Show("Connected!")
            con.Close()
            con.Dispose()
        Catch ex As Exception
            MessageBox.Show(ex.Message)
        End Try
    End SubMy current TNS Ping results
TNS Ping Utility for 32-bit Windows: Version 10.2.0.1.0 - Production on 16-FEB-2011 01:02:36
Copyright (c) 1997, 2005, Oracle. All rights reserved.
Used parameter files:
C:\oraclexe\app\oracle\product\10.2.0\server\network\admin\sqlnet.ora
Used TNSNAMES adapter to resolve the alias
Attempting to contact (DESCRIPTION = (ADDRESS = (PROTOCOL = TCP)(HOST = 127.0.0.1)(PORT = 1521)) (CONNECT_DATA = (SERVER = DEDICATED) (SERVICE_NAME = XE)))
OK (0 msec)2 Connection to SQL plus is instantaneous.
I fought for weeks about the ODAC version 11.2.0.1 that you see in the previous post, and that would be a whole new thread. Suffice it to say I have a reliable environment to program in with this 10.2.0.1.0 version that I am running now, and the connection time has not changed, it is still minimum 20 seconds load time, sometimes up to 25.
3 Ram usage in my typical environment
I am running this laptop with 4 gigs of ram. This is a typical environment I would be running my application in.
Physical memory
total 4090
cached 1753
available 2345
free 656
system
handles 27141
threads 911
processes 70
commit megs 2860/8179
kernel memory megs
paged 201
nonpaged 52
4 I formatted my machine and reinstalled the Windows 7 professional operating system as of a few nights ago. The Oracle software on my machine is
Oracle Database 10g express edition
ODAC 11.1.0
I amm not sure what filename you would need in addition to the product names that I have installed.
5 The information from the SET command is
ALLUSERSPROFILE=C:\ProgramData
APPDATA=C:\Users\stepheke\AppData\Roaming
CommonProgramFiles=C:\Program Files\Common Files
CommonProgramFiles(x86)=C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files
CommonProgramW6432=C:\Program Files\Common Files
COMPUTERNAME=STEKEV0908
ComSpec=C:\Windows\system32\cmd.exe
FP_NO_HOST_CHECK=NO
HOMEDRIVE=C:
HOMEPATH=\Users\stepheke
LOCALAPPDATA=C:\Users\stepheke\AppData\Local
LOGONSERVER=\\STEKEV0908
NUMBER_OF_PROCESSORS=2
oracle_sid=xe
OS=Windows_NT
Path=C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Windows Live;C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Windows Live;C:\Oracleapp\stepheke\product\11.1.0\client_1;C:\Oracleapp\stepheke\product\11.1.0\client_1\bin;C:\oraclexe\app\oracle\product\10.2.0\server\bin;C:\Windows\system32;C:\Windows;C:\Windows\System32\Wbem;C:\Windows\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\;c:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft SQL Server\90\Tools\binn\;C:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Live\Shared
PATHEXT=.COM;.EXE;.BAT;.CMD;.VBS;.VBE;.JS;.JSE;.WSF;.WSH;.MSC
PROCESSOR_ARCHITECTURE=AMD64
PROCESSOR_IDENTIFIER=Intel64 Family 6 Model 23 Stepping 10, GenuineIntel
PROCESSOR_LEVEL=6
PROCESSOR_REVISION=170a
ProgramData=C:\ProgramData
ProgramFiles=C:\Program Files
ProgramFiles(x86)=C:\Program Files (x86)
ProgramW6432=C:\Program Files
PROMPT=$P$G
PSModulePath=C:\Windows\system32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\Modules\
PUBLIC=C:\Users\Public
SystemDrive=C:
SystemRoot=C:\Windows
TEMP=C:\Users\stepheke\AppData\Local\Temp
TMP=C:\Users\stepheke\AppData\Local\Temp
USERDOMAIN=stekev0908
USERNAME=stepheke
USERPROFILE=C:\Users\stepheke
VS90COMNTOOLS=c:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\Common7\Tools\
windir=C:\Windows

Oracle 11g client: TNS-illegal ADDRESS parameter

Hi,
I am working on a database application. The application uses OCI interface to connect and query to the Oracle Database
The application used to work with Oracle 10g client, but using Oracle 11gR1 or 11gR2 client application is failing to connecto the Database
The sqlnet.log on client machine is showing following error
Fatal NI connect error 12533, connecting to:
(DESCRIPTION=(ADDRESS=(PROTOCOL=TCP)(HOST=vm-oedsdev1)(PORT=1521))(CONNECT_DATA
=(SERVICE_NAME=orcl)(CID=(PROGRAM=_orasrv@bespin)(HOST=bespin)(USER=sgarg))))
VERSION INFORMATION:
TNS for Solaris: Version 11.1.0.6.0 - Production
TCP/IP NT Protocol Adapter for Solaris: Version 11.1.0.6.0 - Production
Time: 07-JUL-2011 05:48:50
Tracing to file: /scratch/sgarg/wrk/bug/OE00175173/oe102b/64bit/trace/cli_8585
.trc
Tns error struct:
ns main err code: 12533
TNS-12533: TNS:illegal ADDRESS parameters
ns secondary err code: 0
nt main err code: 0
nt secondary err code: 0
nt OS err code: 0
Following is my test environment
Platform and OS - Solaris 2.9 SPARC V9
Oracle client version - 11.1.0.6.0
Oracle Server version - 11.1.0.6.0
On Database server which is running on 64 bit Windows, listener log and listener trace have following error logs
listenr.log:
TNS-12502: TNS:listener received no CONNECT_DATA from client.
Following is the header of the listener.log file
TNSLSNR for 64-bit Windows: Version 11.1.0.6.0 - Production on 07-JUL-2011 09:04:56
listener.trc:
The corresponding listner trace has following trace entry
[07-JUL-2011 11:51:51:668] ntt2err: Read unexpected EOF ERROR on 460
The Oracle client (version 11.1.0.6.0) is running on Solrias 64 bit machine.
Please help me understanding why are these errors appearing with Oracle 11g client.
Regards,
Sachin

Hi,
Thanks for your reply, but your assumption is incorrect that I did not read the error message in the documentation. I read it many times, but could not correlate it with any wrongdoing.
solaris64:102b$ oerr TNS 12533
12533, 00000, "TNS:illegal ADDRESS parameters"
// *Cause: An illegal set of protocol adapter parameters was specified. In
// some cases, this error is returned when a connection cannot be made to the
// protocol transport.
// *Action: Verify that the destination can be reached using the specified
// protocol. Check the parameters within the ADDRESS section of
// TNSNAMES.ORA. Legal ADDRESS parameter formats may be found in the
// Oracle operating system specific documentation for your platform.
// Protocols that resolve names at the transport layer (such as DECnet object
// names) are vulnerable to this error if not properly configured or names are
// misspelled.
The above says that, illegal set of protocol adapters was specified...., I am using 'Local Naming (tnsnames.ora)' connection method and using TCP/IP protocol.
Following are the tnsnames.ora content
solaris64:102b$ cat tnsnames.ora
oeora11g1 =
(DESCRIPTION =
(ADDRESS_LIST =
(ADDRESS = (PROTOCOL = TCP)(HOST = vm-oedsdev1)(PORT = 1521))
(CONNECT_DATA =
(service_name = orcl)
and the following are the sqlnet.ora content
solaris64:102b$ cat sqlnet.ora
# sqlnet.ora Network Configuration File: /gateways/solaris64/oracle/client/10.2/network/admin/sqlnet.ora
# Generated by Oracle configuration tools.
NAMES.DIRECTORY_PATH= (TNSNAMES, ONAMES)
DIAG_ADR_ENABLED=NO
trace_level_client=SUPPORT
trace_directory_client=/scratch/sgarg/wrk/bug/OE00175173/oe102b/64bit/trace
My bad that the information was not enough to comment on anything on the problem.
I think, the above info would be helpful
Thanks,
Sachin

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