Re: Connecting BDE To Oracle 8.1

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From: Jeff Overcash (TeamB)
Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2000 00:00

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Glen Zimmerman wrote:
> 
> The path is set correctly; however, I don't see any environment variable for
> <OracleHome>.  Is this suppose to be set as well?
> 

Yes.  Under Win9x it should be set in your autoexec.bat, under NT it is set in
the environment options.

> The vendor init is set to oci.dll and the dll32 is sqlora8.dll.
> 

Good.

> When I try to connect to the database through the BDE admin utility, I get the
> error message:
>     General SQL error.
>     ORA-01041: internal error.  hostdef extension doesn't exist.
>     Alias:  ORACLE
> 

I've never seen this error message before.

> I cannot find any reference that indicates where the hostdef extension is suppose
> to be set.  Where is this set?
> 
> Glen Zimmerman
> 

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