Can Oracle 8.1.6 and Orale 7.3.4 co-exist

[THoey]

All,

I am responsible for managing several Oracle applications. For the most part they run under Oracle 7.3.4, but we just received an upgrade to an app that requires 8.1.6. I have set up the database and have installed the new software. It runs fine from the server itself.

When I try to run it from my desktop, it fails, giving a cannot resolve TNS error. I have both versions of Oracle installed on my desktop, in two separate directories. I have created the necessary ODBC connection links. I have used the Net8 Configuration assistant, set up those links, tested them and they work fine.

The tech support for this application says that you can't have Oracle 8.1.6 and 7 on the same machine and that this is the problem. Is this a valid problem, or is there some configuration that I have to do to make these two work? Any advice would be greatly appreciated...

Terry M. Hoey
th3856@txmail.sbc.com

Ever notice that by the time that you realize that you ran a truncate script on the wrong instance, it is too late to stop it?

 

[MikeLacey]

same thread responded to in ora8 forum
Mike
michael.j.lacey@ntlworld.com