Hi=20 >Any of you Oracle-L people use Mathematica 5.1? > >Do you know of any tricks or tips to establish >a JDBC connection between Mathematica 5.1 and Oracle 10g? The last time I started Mathematica was in 1991... huh, what a long = time! ><< DatabaseLink` >OpenSQLConnection[JDBC["oracle.jdbc.driver.OracleDriver", \ >"jdbc:oracle:thin@localhost:1521:ORCL"], Username -> "SCOTT", = "Password" ->=3D > \ >"TIGER"] >JDBC::error: "JDBC error: Invalid Oracle URL specified" A ":" is missing in the connect string, i.e. it should be = "jdbc:oracle:thin:@localhost:1521:ORCL". HTH Chris -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l