Initialization Error

[kiran]

Hi,

When I am giving the connect string in the command window, its giving this error "Initialization Error, Couldn't find OCI DLL..OracleHomeKey:****, OracleHomeDir:\"..
Pls suggest me the solution at the earliest..

Thanx in advance..

 

[Marco Kalter]

This indicates that there is no OCI Library (Oracle Call Interface - oci.dll) in the BIN subdirectory of the Primary Oracle Home.

Can you go to Help > About, press the 'Info' button, press the 'Copy all pages' button on this info screen, and paste this text into an e-mail reply?

 

[WILDMAN]

I've gotten a similar error under Windows XP when the user is not a member of the Administrator group.

If that's not an option, the fix is to enable Everyone read/execute permissions on the Oracle directory and propagate down to all subfolders and objects.