February 3, 201015 yr I am running FMP 10 and cannot access my company's Oracle 10 DB via ODBC. When I first loaded the new version of FM, I could. Then, all of a sudden, I can't. I have looked in the windows XP control panel at the ODBC tab. There is no driver for FM. Silly question, where do I go for this? Remember, it used to work.
February 3, 201015 yr If you are trying to access the Oracle data from FileMaker then you need the Oracle driver setup as a System DSN.
February 3, 201015 yr Author I have the Microsoft Driver for Oracle as a DNS for the target database. I next tried to relate the table in the relationship graph and get the error message DATABASE ERROR. What am I doing wrong?
February 3, 201015 yr Sorry for not following here... Are you saying that you have the Oracle 10g or 11g driver installed as a SYSTEM DSN properly?
February 4, 201015 yr Author Yes. My work around is to use Microsoft Query to hit the database,return the found set to Excel, and then import from there. Since I can hit the data from Access and Excel, I must have it configured properly.
February 4, 201015 yr But perhaps not properly for FileMaker Pro's ESS. Again... Its definitely a System DSN not a User DSN right?
February 4, 201015 yr Author How would I configure the Filemaker ESS any differently? Remember, out of the box, it worked great(as all Filemaker products do)but somewhere along the line it failed. Hence, these posts.
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