There really is not much to know about the drivers except that they have been installed and you select the right one based on what you are connecting to.

We are still all on Win95/98 OS, so I do not know if it is W2K related.

The only requirements to connect to Oracle are the installations of the Oracle [SQL*Net] client and Oracle/MS ODBC drivers and a proper entry in the TNSNAMES.ORA file.

In VFP, the only considerations are the connection in the DBC and/or the string you use in SPT [SQLConnect and SQLStringConnect].

>Hi Mark:
>
>I really appreciate your help. It would be great to get something working here...
>
>>IN the ODBC Administrator, click on the drivers tab and see what version of the MS Driver for Oracle you are using. I am using version 2.573.4403.
>So am I.
>
>>What happens if you open a database and CREATE CONNECTION MYCON and use the DSN as the source?
>I get the error: "Driver's SQLSetConnectAttr failed"
>
>What happens if you select the Connect
> String option and have VFP build the string for you? Then click the Verify Connection button?
>I get a more general error: "Connectivity error"
>
>I am working in a Windows 2000 environment; I wonder if this has anything to do with it. I'm really stumped, but I don't know much at
>all about these drivers...