[THIN] Re: Fun with Oracle

  • From: Greg Reese <gareese@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Thu, 4 Jun 2009 21:50:28 -0500

i just roll with what's already deployed.   I was really hoping for a MySQL
data store one of these days but I guess that will never happen now.

On Thu, Jun 4, 2009 at 9:20 PM, Steve Snyder <kwajalein@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> something about the connection information not being escaped properly which
> the parenthesis are a part of, or some mess like that
>
> Mike would be so proud that you're dropping sql for oracle... :¬D
>
> On Fri, Jun 5, 2009 at 1:15 PM, Greg Reese <gareese@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> maybe they can figure it out with somoe of their new Sun brains.
>>
>> I woudl be good just to find the hook that tells chfarm how to populate
>> the list.
>>
>> I did run filemon on it with no luck
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Jun 4, 2009 at 8:06 PM, Steve Snyder <kwajalein@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>>> Oracle *really* hates parenthesis in the pathnames, I ran into for apps
>>> that were installed into the (X86) folder - didn't try it for xenapp though.
>>>
>>>
>>> On Fri, Jun 5, 2009 at 10:13 AM, Greg Reese <gareese@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>
>>>> So i have two Windows 2003 x64 servers with XA 5 installed pointing to
>>>> Access.
>>>>
>>>> I am trying to move them to Oracle.   Both of them have a working Oracle
>>>> client.  I can tnsping the db, and connect with SQL plus using the proper
>>>> credentials.
>>>>
>>>> I am running chfarm and choosing the new farm option.
>>>>
>>>> On one of the servers, Oracle isn't even an option.  Not sure why but
>>>> it's not in the drop down list.
>>>>
>>>> so I tried the other server, Oracle is an option, but I get a "Database
>>>> connection canceled or failed" message.
>>>>
>>>> I saw an article about Oracle not being able to handle the install
>>>> location of XA on 64 bit servers.  It chokes on the "Program Files (x86)"
>>>> path.  Seriously?  that seems pretty out there.  Even for oracle.  It seems
>>>> odd that I will have to reinstall XenApp just to use Oracle.
>>>>
>>>> Anyone else run into this or have any idea on it?
>>>>
>>>> Thanks
>>>>
>>>> Greg
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>

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