On Oct 5, 2011, at 1:47 PM, Kong, Alan wrote: > > It is different than typing the whole connection description in the command > prompt as it will bypass tnsnames.ora entry. ODBC is looking for the > tnsnames.ora entry for connection description, so using the above connection > method, I bet it will fail also. If this is the case, that means your > tnsnames.ora entry is somehow corrupted by the unknown characters. What I am > usually do is to type the tnsnames.ora entry manually, it should fix your > problem. > > Hope this is the case.
It appears that was a contributing factor. Thanks for your help! Scott...
