RE: Re: Toad 8.5.1 32bit, Instant Client 10.2.0.5 32bit, Win8 64bit connecting to Oracle

Just because something happened to work does at some point not mean it's supported. For example I have posted blogs and virtual machines on Toad World for running Toad on Linux using Wine. But it's not supported.

From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of alert.awake
Sent: Thursday, January 24, 2013 7:48 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: [toad] Re: Toad 8.5.1 32bit, Instant Client 10.2.0.5 32bit, Win8 64bit connecting to Oracle



Thank you for your reply. But I used IC 10.2.0.5 with Toad 8.5.1 32bit before (on XP 32 and 64bit as well as Windows 7 64bit). You can't use a higher version of the Instant Client and have to take the 32bit version, this much I had figured out already.
AA

--- In [email protected]<mailto:toad%40yahoogroups.com>, Gregory Liss wrote:
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> I believe that Toad 9.7 was the first to be able to use an Instant Client. All previous versions required a full Oracle client.
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> Greg
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> From: [email protected]<mailto:toad%40yahoogroups.com> [mailto:[email protected]<mailto:toad%40yahoogroups.com>] On Behalf Of alert.awake
> Sent: Thursday, January 24, 2013 8:26 AM
> To: [email protected]<mailto:toad%40yahoogroups.com>
> Subject: [toad] Toad 8.5.1 32bit, Instant Client 10.2.0.5 32bit, Win8 64bit connecting to Oracle
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> Hi,
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> I got a Win 8 Pro 64bit system recently and wanted to set up connecting to an Oracle DB with Toad 8.5.1. As I done under XP 64bit and Win7 64bit, I downloaded IC 10.2.0.5 32bit, created the Path and TNS_Admin variables and started up Toad (installed in C:\Toad). The home, SQLNET and TNSNAMES are shown as valid in Toad (my DBs are listed), but when I try to connect I get the message: "Cannot find OCI DLL:" (no further Information). I run Toad as Administrator and have set the compatibility mode to "XP SP3". I have no other Oracle installations and am running out of things to try... anyone got an idea how this could be made to work?
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> Thanks a lot!
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> AA
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