New to Java

Hi,

The most common cause of "provider cannot be found.." these days is having 32 bit oracle client installed when the app is 64 bit, or vice versa. It doesnt sound like that's the case here though.
Do you have multiple Oracle homes installed? Make sure the home oraoledb is getting loaded out of is the first in your PATH environment variable.
Short of that, there's no reason I can think of you shouldnt be able to install just 112102 odac and use oledb with 32 bit app. You may want to open a SR with support so we can troubleshoot your particular installation.
You may also want to try using Process Monitor from sysinternals.com to monitor dlls being loaded to see if you can figure out where it's looking, for what, and why it failed.

Hope it helps, but realize it probably doesnt.

Greg

Thanks Greg.

"Do you have multiple Oracle homes installed? Make sure the home oraoledb is getting loaded out of is the first in your PATH environment variable."
[KB]: I am trying to run on the machine where there is no oracle client machine installed. Is my understanding correct that we can use Oracle OleDB driver from VBA by installing the ODAC only on client machine?

You may want to open a SR with support so we can troubleshoot your particular installation.
[KB]: Can you please point me to some instruction page to raise a SR. This is first time that i will be raising a SR.

Thanks
Kamlesh

Hi Greg,

Wondering if you could help.

Facing the "Provider cannot be found" message on a Win2008 Svr R2 64bit when attempting to launch the third-party software. DB patched to 10.2.0.5.0

The sw installed on an XP gets launched fine.

Fact is, I ignorantly took the client installer for the XP and installed it on the server. I also made the mistake of not looking at the install log in its entirety before proceeding - I saw InstantClient was selected and did the same, later realising the DBA who installed on the XP later uninstalled InstantClient and reinstalled Administrator-type.

So I did the same. But I was later told I should have installed the 64bit version of client installer.

So it was reinstalled by DBA, but this error is bugging me. And this error is also happening on the DB server itself, after installing the software there.

Well, hope you can provide some insights into what could be wrong and how to fix it, thanx


Rgds,
SM