Which Oracle home it's connecting to

Post Author: Huamin
CA Forum: General
Hi,
For that I have more than one Oracle Home, how do I know which home it should be using, when calling from Crystal report, using ADO?

Post Author: V361
CA Forum: General
HuaMin, not a direct answer, but create Two ODBC, one with each of your ORACLE homes, and see if your report runs differently when using one connection as opposed to the other. (database, Set Database location, create new, point to the new ODBC connection, and your table, or view, or whatever, and map) Then run your report and see what you get. I have multiple Oracle homes as well, and I just always point my CR to the one that is from the server, not the one on my box. (Just habit)

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