Hi,
Has anyone out there tried setting up a SQL Server 2000 (SP3) Linked Server to Oracle 9i using Oracle's "Oracle Provider for OLE DB"
(http://otn.oracle.com/software/tech/windows/ole_db/content.html)? Have you had any luck? I have gotten pretty good at setting up
Linked Servers to Oracle using the "Microsoft OLE DB Provider for Oracle." I just wanted to see if I could get better performance
using Oracle's drivers instead of Microsoft's.
The problem I'm having is not that SQL Server rejects my settings, it's when ever I try to use the Linked Server I get a messages
like...
OLE DB provider 'OraOLEDB.Oracle' reported an error. Access denied.
OLE DB error trace [OLE/DB Provider 'OraOLEDB.Oracle' IUnknown::QueryInterface returned 0x80070005: Access denied.].
-- OR --
Could not create an instance of OLE DB provider 'OraOLEDB.Oracle'.
OLE DB error trace [Non-interface error: CoCreate of DSO for OraOLEDB.Oracle returned 0x80040154].
Any suggestions?
Thank you,
Dan