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Issues connecting MS Excel/Access 2019 to 18c XE

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
Best Answer
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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!
Answers
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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 <
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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 <
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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 <
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I googled for "ORA-1013 ODBC", assume you did too, but in case you did not:
https://its.uiowa.edu/support/article/101855
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 <
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Show us how you have configured the ODBC connection...
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Here are my steps