Have you checked through https://supporthtml.oracle.com/ep/faces/secure/km/DocumentDisplay.jspx?id=1132946.1 The most likely thing is that you haven't included "Windows Interfaces" in the client install. On Fri, Oct 14, 2011 at 3:39 PM, Storey, Robert (DCSO) < RStorey@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Okay, > > > I'm slogging through documentation to try to help our developer. My las > of SQL server knowledge is hindering me. > > > > He's trying to run linked server connection on a test box to an oracle > database. I've installed the 11g client. But, when he uses the sql > server management studio he does not see the appropriate oraoledb driver > to make the linked server connection. > > > > This was working for him on his old box where he had installed 10g. > > > > Is there something else I should install other than the basic oracle > client? > > > > Back to slogging through the docs. > > > -- > //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l > > > -- Niall Litchfield Oracle DBA http://www.orawin.info -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l