topic Re: Oracle Direct Connect Problem in Data Management Questions https://community.esri.com/t5/data-management-questions/oracle-direct-connect-problem/m-p/95418#M5590 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>I figured it out.&nbsp; I had a bad environment variable.</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Thu, 16 Sep 2010 14:27:10 GMT BradHeneghan 2010-09-16T14:27:10Z Oracle Direct Connect Problem https://community.esri.com/t5/data-management-questions/oracle-direct-connect-problem/m-p/95417#M5589 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>I just installed ArcMap 9.3.1 on two new Windows XP computers and I can't get them to connect to our SDE database.&nbsp; We use an Oracle 10 client direct connect set up to access our SDE database.&nbsp; When we try to connect to the databases we get the following error: Failed to connect to database. Underlying DBMS error[Unknown errorNo extended error.]&nbsp; </SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>I set these computers up just like I've done for the rest of the team, and I've never seen this error before.&nbsp; Does anyone have any helpful information?</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Mon, 13 Sep 2010 21:44:52 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/data-management-questions/oracle-direct-connect-problem/m-p/95417#M5589 BradHeneghan 2010-09-13T21:44:52Z Re: Oracle Direct Connect Problem https://community.esri.com/t5/data-management-questions/oracle-direct-connect-problem/m-p/95418#M5590 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>I figured it out.&nbsp; I had a bad environment variable.</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Thu, 16 Sep 2010 14:27:10 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/data-management-questions/oracle-direct-connect-problem/m-p/95418#M5590 BradHeneghan 2010-09-16T14:27:10Z Re: Oracle Direct Connect Problem https://community.esri.com/t5/data-management-questions/oracle-direct-connect-problem/m-p/95419#M5591 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>Hello,</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Can you post more on this?&nbsp; Which environment variavble was wrong?&nbsp; I am having same problem with one computer and do not know which part is wrong.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Thanks.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><BLOCKQUOTE class="jive-quote">I figured it out.&nbsp; I had a bad environment variable.</BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML> Mon, 13 Aug 2012 13:03:43 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/data-management-questions/oracle-direct-connect-problem/m-p/95419#M5591 YinghongLi 2012-08-13T13:03:43Z