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Sorry folks, but my email bounces to the origianl sender & I thought
this might be of general use...


Excerpts from netnews.comp.sys.next.programmer: 18-Dec-92 Re: Linking to
SPARC based .. by Neil Greene@??? 
>In article <1992Dec18.180203.4193@bas-a.bcc.ac.uk> sheep@tankgirl (Sheep  
>T. Iconoclast) writes:
>>
>>  <Messege deleted for space, basically questions about connecting to
>>   an oracle server on a SPARC from a NeXT, and said difficulties...>
> 
>You will have to modify your NeXT NetInfo database alittle to allow it to  
>communicate with the Oracle server on port 1525.  This information can now  
>be found in the 93_Winter_NeXTAnswers, but here it is:
> 

Keep in mind that this is merely registering the tcp socket-port number.
 It also helps to be running the deamon process that will listen on this
socket -- namely oracle's ORASRV.  Note: DBKit can NOT talk to Oracle
without this process running!  (Even when it's on the same machine...)

I suggest you ask the SPARC guys to contact Oracle & obtain this program!



> 
>Also remember, that the Oracle Adaptor is _only_ going to see tables owned  
>by the user logging into the Oracle server thru the adaptor.  To see  
>tables used by others for use in the DBModeler, see the following. Also  
>found in 93_Winter_NeXTAnswers:
> 

humf.   Running DBModeler, under the "Entity" menu, 
select "Choose Entities...".  Then log into oracle as the oracle user of
your choice.  Select the tables you wish to build a model for...  Boom,
your halfway there...  (You still need to enter the relationships... 
And allow the original account permission to select said tables...)

Anyway, it makes life easier...


>If that still does not work, I would check for the correct information to  
>be correct:
> 
>          Oracle instance name (this is the database name)
>          Oracle user account
>          Oracle user password
>        


YES!!!  Particularly check that the letter-CASE is correct!  And that
your NeXT can access the SPARC-machine!  (telnet sparc.machine??).


Good luck.

        -David.