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Oracle ORA-12154: TNS: Could not resolve service name Error?

Asked 2008-10-15T19:23:14.140
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I am a SQL Server user .

I am on a project that is using oracle (which I rarely use) I need to create an ODBC connection so I can access the some data via MS Access I have a application on my machine called oraHome90. It seems to allow a configuration of something called a listener in a “net configuration utility”, I think that a “Local Net Service Name Configuration” needs to also be done. The IT support gave me this information to set up the ODBC connection . I have tried every combination that I can think of. I can get past a test that successfully passes a test to “login“ to the oracle server database. When I try to create the ODBC connection I get the following error: ORA-12154: TNS: Could not resolve service name.

Assuming that I want to start from scratch and the following information is supposed to allow for me to connect to the database….. Any suggestions or comment ? Note: ultimately the project will have a website .ASP page query the data, but I have to first prove that I can see the data using the ODBC connection via MS Access

Service name: SERVICENAME
HOST = HOST.XYZi.com
User Id: MYUSERID
Password: MYPASSWORD
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'Oracle Connection
Dim ocst
Dim oconn

ocst = "Provider=OraOLEDB.Oracle;" & _ 
        "Data Source=DATASOURCE;" & _ 
        "User ID=CHIJXL;" & _ 
        "Password=password;" 

set oconn = CreateObject("ADODB.Connection")
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I had a same problem and the same error was showing up. my TNSNAMES:ORA file was also good to go but apparently there was a problem due to firewall blocking the access. SO a good tip would be to make sure that firewall is not blocking the access to the datasource.

answered 2011-04-12T10:43:44.517

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