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Installing an ODBC for 11g on Win 7 64 Bit Nearly Impossible
Does anyone know how to do this in less than 30 steps, after uninstalling and reinstalling all the software and DB several times?
It basically just cost me a job, because lacking an ODBC, working from home, I can't run ADO, OLEDB, even link tables in Access so I can run ADO or DAO into THAT.
Seriously, I've pulled data from a mainframe OS2 into Excel with less trouble. If Oracle can't handle a simple ODBC like IBM, something is very wrong.
They are the most common, universal connection objects in the world. Why does this have to be like pulling teeth?
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It's funny how whenever you can't figure these things out it's always the fault of something *else*.
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Yes, me and the other 8,000 developers posting on this site about ODBC not working.
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user9334236 wrote: Does anyone know how to do this in less than 30 steps, after uninstalling and reinstalling all the software and DB several times? It basically just cost me a job, because lacking an ODBC, working from home, I can't run ADO, OLEDB, even link tables in Access so I can run ADO or DAO into THAT. Seriously, I've pulled data from a mainframe OS2 into Excel with less trouble. If Oracle can't handle a simple ODBC like IBM, something is very wrong. They are the most common, universal connection objects in the world. Why does this have to be like pulling teeth?
Realize that Oracle does not require ODBC at all; so please explain why you blame your woes on Oracle DB.
You need to be smarter than the tools you (ab)use.
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That must be why Oracle has a 600 megabyte "patch" for ODBCs on Win 64, you need special access to download. Probably because it doesn't actually work either.
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I've never had any problem installing Oracle ODBC. I just download the standard client from OTN, install it according to the very fine Installation Guide, and there it is. Of course you still have to configure a DNS, but you have to do that with any ODBC.
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Then I assume you aren't using Win 7 64 bit.
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user9334236 wrote: Then I assume you aren't using Win 7 64 bit.
You assume incorrectly.
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You guys seem to have everything but answers.
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> You guys seem to have everything but answers.
You haven't asked a question yet.
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The software is here - 64-bit Oracle Data Access Components (ODAC) for Windows - instructions at the bottom of the page.
You haven't indicated what exactly you have installed / uninstalled.