Oracle - Instant Client

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RST picture RST · Jan 17, 2014 · Viewed 13.5k times · Source

I'm trying to install the Oracle Instant Client and ODBC drivers on a 64 bit, Windows 7 machine.

I have downloaded BOTH

  • Instant Client Package - Basic
  • Instant Client Package - ODBC

I had put both sets of files in the same directory: 

C:\Oracle\instantclient_11_2

I set both the ORACLE_HOME and TNS_ADMIN environment variables to the same directory: 

C:\Oracle\instantclient_11_2

Finally, I am trying to execute the "odbc_install.exe" file as an administrator.

ERROR: Oracle ODBC driver with the same name already exists

The one thing I did BEFORE any of this was to install and later uninstall the OracleXEClient.exe file.

Not sure how to proceed???

Answer

Hallgrímur Eymundsson picture Hallgrímur Eymundsson · Aug 30, 2016

Open Command Prompt as an Administrator and the run odbc_install.exe from there.

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