|  | Posted by Crazy Cat on 12/19/05 17:50 
Hi Mark,
 I figured mabye my problem could be solved by upgrading the version of
 Oracle so I installed Oracle 10.1 on Friday and had success with the
 Microsoft Oracle OLEDB provider -- not so with the Oracle provider, but
 rather than wasting a bunch of time figuring out why I couldn't connect
 with that I figured the MS Oracle DB provider would fill my needs.
 However this morning I attempted to once again connect via SQL Server
 Express figuring and had gotten over the hurdle and I got a new error
 -- OLE DB provider "MSDAORA" for linked server "MSORACLE" returned
 message "Oracle error occurred, but error message could not be
 retrieved from Oracle.". And again I can connect to this database fine
 using PL/SQL Developer. So once again I'm back to square one and
 totally perplexed. Any idea how
 to retrieve the Oracle messages?
 
 As to why I'm using SQL Server Express -- I am doing an MS Excel
 automation project, so I'm not quite sure that Oracle is an option on
 the client side. Also the backend is not on my machine -- I actually
 have no idea where it is, except that I know it's some huge (6
 Terabyte) database server somewhere.
 
 By "Local to remote mapping" I'm referring to the selection on SQL
 Server Express' Security Property Page (right click on Properties for
 the linked server, then click on the Security selection in left pane of
 the dialog box that appears). It appears to allow you to enter a user
 and password combination that will be used to attach to the linked
 server.
 
 Thanks again
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