scogeb (10/4/2012)
Thanks for the links guys! Wow, what a zoo. I finally got it to work, but it was a chore. I had to install both the 32 and 64 bit clients. I then used Oracle Net Manager to create a service name in both the 32 and 64 bit clients. Then in SSMS, I created the linked server. I was then able to run openquery commands successfully.
I'm curious about why both the 32 and 64 bits clients had to be installed, after all I expect the connection to be established by a single client as opposed to a colaborative effort between two different ones.
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Pablo (Paul) Berzukov
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