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Monday, May 7, 2007

How To Troubleshoot an ASP-to-Oracle Connectivity Problem

This article outlines some of the common steps to take when you troubleshoot a problem with a connection to an Oracle Database from an Active Server Pages (ASP) application. Some of the more common error messages are:

Microsoft OLE DB Provider for ODBC Drivers error '80004005' [Oracle][ODBC][Ora]ORA-12154: TNS:Could not resolve service name /vdir/filename.asp, line xxx.

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The Oracle(tm) client and networking components were not found. These components are supplied by Oracle Corporation and are part of the Oracle Version 7.3 (or greater) client software installation.

You will be unable to use this driver until these components have been installed.

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