Is there a way to use Personal Oracle with VB4.
I have Personal Oracle 7.2. I tried to add a datasource with the
Oracle ODBC Driver that comes with VB. But each time I try, get a
dialog that tell me that Oracle client and networking component are
not installed. In fact I did a complete installation. I looked at this
SQL*Net thing, and it is just a configuration utility. I'm downloading
the 8 Meg ODBC driver from oracle we will see if that works. I have
the impression that it is not possible to use Personal Oracle v7.2 to
do development.

This is my first experience with an Oracle product, I usually use MS
SQL Server and Sybase to do development. I am really not impressed. If
I can't even connect to it how am I supposed to use the damn thing. I
don't understand, Oracle is supposed to be THE biggest database
corporation. Everyone and their grandmother is ODBC compliant but not
oracle?

If you have any information on this, please let me know.

Regards,
Stephen Remillard

Montreal, Quebec, Canada

I am new to Oracle as well but I was able to connect to a Local Personal oracle
DB via ODBC. I downloaded the 8 meg driver and set up the source. Instead of
useing a  connection string say "t:someIp:DBname" I used 2: and it worked (no
idea why). If you need more information email me directly and I'll look deeeper
into my configureation.
Doug Erwin
Brio technology