Posted by Crazy Cat on 12/28/05 15:25

John Bell wrote:
> Hi
>
> Did you check out
> http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;822841
> and
> http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;197459
>
> John

Hi John,

Neither of those appear to apply in my case, but I went back to using
the Oracle OLEDB provider (as opposed to the Microsoft OLE for ODBC
driver with an Oracle ODBC source) and lo and behold everything's right
again. Thanks for your help.


>
> "Crazy Cat" <danbredy@hotmail.com> wrote in message
> news:1135272215.755328.95640@g49g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I am having trouble getting linked Oracle 9 server in MS SQL Server
> > 2005 Express to work properly. My machine is running Windows XP.
> >
> > The Microsoft and Oracle OLE DB Providers have problems dealing with
> > Oracle's Numeric Data Type, so I decided to use Microsoft's OLE DB for
> > ODBC Provider and an Oracle ODBC source. When using the Microsoft ODBC
> > for Oracle Driver in my ODBC source I have inconsistent behavior.
> > Sometimes my queries are processed properly, then other times I get the
> > following error
> >
> > OLE DB provider "MSDASQL" for linked server "ODBCBEAST" returned
> > message "[Microsoft][ODBC Driver Manager] Driver's SQLSetConnectAttr
> > failed".
> > OLE DB provider "MSDASQL" for linked server "ODBCBEAST" returned
> > message "[Microsoft][ODBC Driver Manager] Driver's SQLSetConnectAttr
> > failed".
> > OLE DB provider "MSDASQL" for linked server "ODBCBEAST" returned
> > message "[Microsoft][ODBC driver for Oracle][Oracle]".
> > Msg 7303, Level 16, State 1, Line 1
> > Cannot initialize the data source object of OLE DB provider "MSDASQL"
> > for linked server "ODBCBEAST".
> >
> > I have no idea why sometimes I can connect to the linked server with no
> > problems and
> > why other times it performs like this. I'm not changing anything about
> > the system I can think of. When I use an Oracle client (PL/SQL) I have
> > absolutely no problems connecting. TNSPING returns that the connection
> > is good.
> >
> > This is unacceptable so I decided to try my luck with the Oracle 10g
> > ODBC driver. However when I use this and perform an openquery select
> > against the linked server I get back only 11 rows, when I know that the
> > database has over 100 rows (in fact when using the Microsoft ODBC
> > driver and it works that's what I get). I figured maybe the buffer
> > setting needed to be raised in the ODBC configuration so I took it from
> > 64000 to 600000 (a magnitude of 10) but I still get back only 11 rows.
> > I'm at my wit's end.
> >
> > Any suggestions on resolving one or the other problem would be much
> > appreciated.
> >
> > Thanks much
> >

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