XPost: comp.databases.oracle.misc   
   From: fvanbortel@netscape.net   
      
   Tig wrote:   
   > Hi all.   
   >   
   > I have a need to connect to an Oracle 7.3.3.5 database.  I have a user   
   > who successfully connects to it with her Oracle 7.3 client.  I have an   
   > Oracle 9.2 client installed on my machine.   
      
   STOP reading... bzz, twink!   
   7.3.3 was a non-version anyway, and obsoleted long ago, in the previous   
   century... I don't want to know what excuse you have, upgrade!   
   At least to the last version 7.   
      
   Do you think a network component of 4 MAJOR versions later   
   is compatible? Well it's not.   
      
   Apart from that - check your ports (you mention 1526 in the 7.3   
   environment - a remnant of SQL*Net V1, yet have 1521 specified)   
   And next time, post the actual commands - you just yab something   
   doesn't work, but we are not clearvoyant.   
   TNSPING may fail to resolve the name when your sqlnet has   
   a default domain - we don't know, as you don't tell us.   
      
   And don't get smart and start changing SID into SERVICE_NAME;   
   Oracle 7.3 doesn't understand that.   
   --   
   Regards,   
   Frank van Bortel   
      
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