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Re: ORA 7.3 v 9.2 client conneection problems

kma...@comcast.net (KMART) — Tue, 12 Apr 2005 21:54:28 UT

Are you attempting to utilizing SQLPLUS to connect to your database?
If so the client for 9.2 will not connect to the 7.3 database. You can
install multiple oracle clients on your desktop.
Ken Martin
kma...@comcast.net

Re: Free ad-hoc reporting tools

i...@dtmsoft.com (Igor Shekalev) — Tue, 12 Apr 2005 17:26:24 UT

[link] offers FreeReport, Freeware reporting tool based on
previous version of the FastReport.
a> Are there any free tools out there like crystal Reports?
Igor Shekalev, [link] - powerful database tools

Re: Free ad-hoc reporting tools

damor...@x.washington.edu (DA Morgan) — Tue, 12 Apr 2005 15:38:00 UT

Perhaps you haven't noticed ... but IBM DB2 and Oracle are not
Microsoft products. If not Crystal look at Cognos.

Re: Free ad-hoc reporting tools

bucknugg...@yahoo.com — Tue, 12 Apr 2005 14:30:37 UT

depending on your needs, you might want to also consider tools like
php, ruby, python, etc: while they lack some of crystal report's
functionality, I think that they more than make up with it with:
- cost
- ease of integration with standard applications
- flexibility in presenting info
- ease of publishing over web

Re: Free ad-hoc reporting tools

s...@hayes.ch (Simon Hayes) — Tue, 12 Apr 2005 13:52:34 UT

One option is Reporting Services, which is free if you have a SQL
Server license:
[link]
Simon

Free ad-hoc reporting tools

afsincl...@optonline.net — Tue, 12 Apr 2005 12:56:48 UT

I am in need of an ad-hoc reporting tool for generating reports from a
database on an SQL server. Crystal Reports has all of the
functionality I need but the price tag is too high.
Are there any free tools out there like crystal Reports?

Re: why to migrate from infromix to oracle

damor...@x.washington.edu (DA Morgan) — Mon, 11 Apr 2005 15:07:12 UT

To leverage Oracle's examples you will need to rewrite your code
to use what is Oracle but not Informix.
To start with reads don't block writes and writes don't block
reads. Then there is a huge base of functionality available in the
many built-in packages. And it goes on from there. I have a 3 hour

Re: why to migrate from infromix to oracle

mark.pow...@eds.com — Mon, 11 Apr 2005 13:22:21 UT

Unless you intend to make use of Oracle provided features that are not
available with Informix there are for all practical purposes no
advantages of Oracle over Informix.
Having said that Oracle is a very good all around rdbms that works well
with small to large concurrent user loads with small to very large

Re: Oracle 7.3 v 9.2 client connection problems

simon.cul...@bhpbilliton.com (Tig) — Mon, 11 Apr 2005 07:03:16 UT

Thank you Rauf. Yes, it appears that as you said it is an Oracle
support issue, and I "won't be able to connect to 7.3.x from 9.2.x
client".
I got this from the Oracle site:
"However, since Oracle 7.3.4 was desupported before Oracle9i Release 2
(9.2) was released, 9.2 does not support Oracle 7.3.4."

why to migrate from infromix to oracle

pawar.gir...@gmail.com (Girish) — Mon, 11 Apr 2005 04:58:46 UT

Hi all,
We are doing an exercise of migrating an application (developed in
Informix 4gl) from Informix to Oracle database.
Before doing actual migration, we would like to know some of the key
advantages of Oracle over Informix. If there are any examples of any
company getting benefits because of this kind of migration, please

Re: Oracle 7.3 v 9.2 client connection problems

rs_ar...@hotmail.com (Rauf Sarwar) — Sat, 09 Apr 2005 01:17:57 UT

Tig wrote:
user
was
works
(DESCRIPTION=(CONNECT_DATA=(SI D=*)(SERVICE_NAME=xxxora2.xxx .xxx.com.au))(ADDRESS=(PROTOC OL=TCP)(HOST=xxxora2.xxx.xxx. com.au)(PORT=1521)))
a
"ORA-12154:
SID,
We have an old server with 7.3.4 that we keep around for testing. You
are in a no win situation... you won't be able to connect to 7.3.x from

Re: Oracle 7.3 v 9.2 client connection problems

ianal_vi...@hotmail.com (IANAL_VISTA) — Fri, 08 Apr 2005 14:28:31 UT

"Tig" <Simon.Cul...@BHPBilliton.com> wrote in
V7.3 does NOT interoperate with V9.2. Period. End of statement.
V8.1.7 or V9.0 client s/w can inter-operate with all the above.

Re: "No size set for variable length data" Oracle update error with empty string in .NET

fvanbor...@netscape.net (Frank van Bortel) — Fri, 08 Apr 2005 11:46:24 UT

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Why don't you store a NULL? Oracle will treat '' (empty string) as
NULL, and store as NULL anyway - better be prepared for it, and
treat it as such.
Oh yes - it will work when you let Oracle do the conversion(s), but
some understanding of the product you are working with will only

Oracle 7.3 v 9.2 client connection problems

simon.cul...@bhpbilliton.com (Tig) — Fri, 08 Apr 2005 04:05:07 UT

Hi all.
I have a need to connect to an Oracle 7.3.3.5 database. I have a user
who successfully connects to it with her Oracle 7.3 client. I have an
Oracle 9.2 client installed on my machine.
I had her send me her tnsnames.ora from her PC. The entry I wanted was
as follows (some letters replaced with xxx for security reasons):

ORA 7.3 v 9.2 client conneection problems

simon.cul...@bhpbilliton.com (Tig) — Fri, 08 Apr 2005 03:39:22 UT