I am developing an application that needs to be rewritten using a "slightly documented" legacy Oracle database. To start this process, I want to start creating a view in this database using ODBC links in the MS Access database so that I can figure out the database structure, but I cannot figure out how to set up an ODBC connection with Oracle DB.
I was able to connect using the host name and service and view the database using SQL Developer; but i cant figure out how to configure ODBC. I run Windows 7 and installed Oracle 11g, Oracle Express Edition, Instant Client, and ODBC extensitons; but in the ODBC installation, Oracle wants me to select the TNS service name, but there is no one to select, and there is no place to specify the host. I tried setting up TNS in tnsnames.ora; but I'm not sure I know the right place for this file.
I really thought it would be the easy part; but actually it wasn’t.
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