Today I faced the problem of Oracle Forms 6i failing to connect to Oracle XE 10g on my colleague’s laptop.
I faced this problem before also but never thought of jotting it down.
Now I though it will be good idea and helpful to many of my colleagues and friends in Oracle community, if I do so!
Here is what I did to connect Oracle Forms 6i to Oracle XE 10g.
To make Oracle Forms 6i able to connect to Oracle XE 10g I set the database character set to UTF8.
Steps to do are as follows:
First I shutdown the database:
SQLPLUS>shutdown immediate
Then I start the […]

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