Ravi,
You're not doing anything wrong, it's just an
unfortunate limitation of Net8 that you can't do a
describe over a dblink to an O7 db.
HTH,
- Anita
- Ravindra P Channe <ravindra_c_at_mindtree.com> wrote:
> Hi Oracle Gurus,
>
> I have recently started learning DBA skills. All the
> day I just go thru this
> list to pick up as much as I can. It would be nice
> if my problem is solved,
> which might be very simple, but as I m still in
> learning phase I might not
> have gone thru the complete information about it.
>
> I have created a Database link 'link1' in user
> schema 'user1' on Oracle
> 8.1.5 to connect another database on Oracle 7.3.3.
> Using the link I can do
> 'select * from table1_at_link1' operation, but when I
> try to describe the same
> table using 'desc table1_at_link1' it gives me an error
> 'ORA-12663 : Services
> required by client not available on the server'
>
> Is there any thing which I missed out....
>
> Thanx in advance....
>
> Ravi
>
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Received on Tue Jul 04 2000 - 19:30:17 CDT
