Oracle Spatial Error

Re: Oracle Spatial Error

Martin Roy — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 23:24:44 GMT

rlingle, thanks for the information. I was not aware of this. Yes, this normally appears on a 64-bit OS with a 32-bit application as the Program Files directory is special then. However Microstation SelectSeries1 alos uses a default path with parenthesis but that can be changed at Microstation installation time.

Martin

Re: Oracle Spatial Error

Rob Lingle — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 02:43:50 GMT

Martin,

We ran into the same issue with parentheses in the MS path name. Seems that the Oracle client dlls can't be loaded from applications whose full path includes parentheses.

It can be quite confusing but would generally only show up on 64-bit systems. I used mklink to get around it because either the MicroStation or (I think) Map installer wouldn't let me install outside of "c:\program files (x86)\".

Here's one reference:
http://ambergis.wordpress.com/2009/01/13/oracle-and-parentheses-x86/

Re: Oracle Spatial Error

srg_gis — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 10:52:12 GMT

Thanks everyone for your inputs and support. It was just a corrupt Oracle 11g installation that went unnoticed because of which Bentley Map was unable to get the ORACLE_HOME and other stuff.

Now things are fine after a fresh install of Oracle!

SRG

Re: Oracle Spatial Error

Martin Roy — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 18:22:38 GMT

Hum, never heard of that. Would you have a reference handy, or maybe a problem report number ? I'd like to learn more about that.

Thanks,

Martin

Re: Oracle Spatial Error

Dan Weston — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 02:43:58 GMT

SRG,

Does SQL Developer and/or other Oracle client apps work properly on the PC that Bentley Map is on? If so, try installing MicroStation V8i (SELECTseries 1) in a folder that does not contain parenthesis. We've heard reports of TNS errors and non-connect issues from Oracle due to the MicroStation folder name.

Re: Oracle Spatial Error

Martin Roy — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 19:33:47 GMT

Hi Ian. Bentley Map is a 32 bit application and thus requires the 32 bit version of the Oracle dlls. You must install the 32 bit version of the Oracle client 11g.

Rest assured though: you will still be able to connect to either 32 or 64 bit versions of Oracle servers.

Martin

Re: Oracle Spatial Error

IanTidy — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 03:40:16 GMT

Does it matter if you install the 64 or 32 bit versionof the Oracle Client. In previous versions of Map, it would only work with the 32bit driver.

Cheers Ian

Re: Oracle Spatial Error

Martin Roy — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 19:05:26 GMT

No, I don't think the help is wrong. That would refer to the Oracle Server version. We can connect to any of those server versions, but we do require the client version to be 11g.

Thanks,

Martin

Re: Oracle Spatial Error

JeffHobbs — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 07:40:35 GMT

It's interesting, the help prereqs read that you can have Oracle Client 9i, 10g, or 11g. I installed 10g initially and I was getting the same error. I then upgraded to 11g and it's working better. Is the help wrong?

Re: Oracle Spatial Error

Martin Roy — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 19:35:32 GMT

Yes, you absolutely need to install Oracle Client 11g on the machine where Bentley Map runs. Map V8i SS1 cannot use an older version of the Oracle client. You must also make sure you select the OCI option when installing the client as we need the OCI/OCCI dlls and the correct version is only installed when you choose that option.

Do you have more than one Oracle client version installed ? If so, make sure the 11g one is the first in your machine's PATH environment variable.

Hope this helps,

Martin

Re: Oracle Spatial Error

Jerry Walter - Bentley — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 18:51:48 GMT

Are you using Oracle Client 11 also on the workstation ? This is a definitie requirement for Bentley Map v8i and later. Also do you have the correct Desktop prereqs for the version of Microstation/Map ?

HTH

Jerry