On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 6:12 AM, Shanmugam, Dhandapani < dhandapani.shanmugam@xxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi, > > Thanks for the update. After the installation of the ODBC driver, when i > tried the connection am getting an error. It is reporting connection > error. Kindly suggest me on that > > SQL> select count(1) from "mails"@DHAN; > select count(1) from "mails"@DHAN > * > ERROR at line 1: > ORA-28545: error diagnosed by Net8 when connecting to an agent > Unable to retrieve text of NETWORK/NCR message 65535 > ORA-02063: preceding 2 lines from DHAN > > Unless I am missing something, you seem to have ODBC confused with database links. The syntax you are using for the test SQL is for a database link. Take a look at the docs under "CREATE DATABASE LINK" -- Jared Still Certifiable Oracle DBA and Part Time Perl Evangelist