Issues connecting MS Excel/Access 2019 to 18c XE

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I recently upgraded from XE 11g to 18c, and now I cannot connect from MS Access and Excel to my XE via ODBC. Everything was working just fine previously on 11g. I am using 64-bit for all applications and Windows 10 OS.

I am able to setup the ODBC connection and test the ping successfully. I am also able to login into XE via SqlDeveloper and SqlPlus successfully.

But when I try to connect to XE via Power Query, Power Pivot, or Access I get these connection errors:

Interestingly a pass through query in Access works fine

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Hey everyone, I solved it!

You have to set the service name to XEPDB1. The 11g service name was just XE, but the new pluggable db changes things a bit.

Once I did that everything worked as expected!

L. Fernigrini

Which Oracle ODBC driver are you using? You should use the 18c version and not the 11g one.

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Correct I am using the 18c driver that was installed when I installed 18c

XE.

All remnants of 11g were removed when I upgraded.

On Tue, Jun 4, 2019 at 8:22 AM community-admin <

Sven W.

This is a wild guess, but maybe you need to install the oracle client too (at least version 12.2). https://docs.oracle.com/en/database/oracle/oracle-database/18/odbcr/index.html#ODBCR101

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I actually tried that and it didn’t work. Granted I might not have done it

right. But I don’t think this is the answer for a few reasons:

1.) XE comes with its own driver on install, and

2.) I didn’t have to do this with 11g and I don’t see any documentation

from Oracle on a change in this process.

Is there anyone else out there that can see if this happens to them as

well?

On Tue, Jun 4, 2019 at 1:24 PM community-admin <

Choc Cac

What version of Excel do you use?
Because it does not download the Excel Power Query and reinstall it.

https://www.microsoft.com/es-es/download/details.aspx?id=39379

Regards!

Choc

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I am using Office 2019 x64. Power Query is pre-installed and cannot be reinstalled.

On Tue, Jun 4, 2019 at 2:37 PM community-admin <

Christian.Shay -Oracle

I googled for "ORA-1013 ODBC", assume you did too, but in case you did not:

https://its.uiowa.edu/support/article/101855

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/964676/error-s1t00-oracle-odbc-ora-ora-01013-user-requested-cancel-of-current

Take a look at these links and see if they apply to your situation.

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Tried that. No luck.

Any chance this could be related to the new multi-tenant architecture?

Does the ODBC try to connect to the he CDB or PDB?

On Wed, Jun 5, 2019 at 1:02 PM community-admin <

L. Fernigrini

Show us how you have configured the ODBC connection...

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Here are my steps