RE: Oracle db access on Linux

Ok, progress. Calling (sql:initialize-database-type :database-type :oracle8)
didn't do what I expected, as sql:*default-database-type* remained
:odbc-driver. I set that variable directly, then called
(sql:initialize-database-type). Fine. Works. Upon connect, I now get:

Error: Sql-Database-Data-Error id -7217[7217] : ORA-07217: sltln:
environment variable cannot be evaluated.

Oops. I suspect I'm almost there...

Cheers, David

-----Original Message-----
From: davef@xanalys.com [mailto:davef@xanalys.com]
Sent: Tuesday, September 21, 2004 1:15 PM
To: deyoung@bloodhoundinc.com
Cc: lisp-hug@xanalys.com
Subject: Re: Oracle db access on Linux


 > 
 > Greetings. We're an Enterprise LWW customer evaluating that platform for
 > Linux. We have Oracle 8.1.7 installed on Redhat 7.2, but can't seem to
 > initialize CommonSQL with a database type of :ORACLE. For example, 
 > 
 > (require "oracle")
 > (sql:initialize-database-type :database-type :oracle)
 > 
 > yields an SQL-ERROR of "Database type ORACLE is not supported"
 > 
 > According to the LW docs, we should indicate oracle's install directory
via
 > an environment variable. That would seem to be ORACLE_HOME, and it's set
to
 > oracle's root install directory.
 > 
 > We don't want to use ODBC. What am I missing? Thanks...

(SQL:INITIALIZE-DATABASE-TYPE :DATABASE-TYPE :ORACLE8)

The documentation in the LispWorks User Guide is inaccurate -
sorry. The correct value is well-hidden, in the manual page for
SQL:CONNECT. We'll improve this documentation.

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