ODBC and a remote Oracle database

[Michael McDaniel]

Perhaps ODBCINI and ODBCSYSINI need setting, pointing
to proper files describing the (remote) server/database?

>From within an application I do

os:putenv("ODBCINI", "/etc/unixODBC/odbc.ini") ,
os:putenv("ODBCSYSINI", "/etc/unixODBC/odbcinst.ini") ,


~Michael


On Fri, Oct 14, 2005 at 12:32:23PM -0400, Serge Aleynikov wrote:
> Make sure that Oracle client and the ODBC is configured properly:
> 
> If you are on Windows/UNIX, try:
> 
> tnsping DATABASE_ALIAS
> 
> If this doesn't return "ok", it means that your client is missing 
> configuration in tnsnames.ora, which is usually found in:
> $ORACLE_HOME/network/admin
> 
> Otherwise make sure that ODBC has a DSN entry for the database you are 
> trying to connect to.  Verify it by using:
> 
> On Windows: Control Panel\Administrative Tools\Data Sources (ODBC)
> On Unix: run ODBCConfig (if you are using unixODBC)
> 
> Serge
> 
> Sebastian Bello wrote:
> >Hi all,
> > 
> >I'm trying to access a remote Oracle database from Erlang through ODBC. 
> >I define the DSN pointing to a TNS Service Name which points to a remote 
> >Oracle database (and use Oracle's ODBC driver). Using the connection 
> >string "DSN=ev;UID=test;PWD=test" I get error
> >    {error,"No SQL-driver information available. Connection to database 
> >failed."}
> >The same configuration works fine when ran in the machine where Oracle 
> >runs.
> > 
> >Should a different connection string be used? Any other suggestions?
> >Thanks,
> >    Sebastian-
> > 
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