On my workplace we had computers with 32 bits MS-Excel and a dozen of spreadsheets connecting to Oracle 32 bits database using MSDAORA connector. Recently we updated some machines and new OS came as 64 bits. So we decided to install Oracle 11g client on all machines (x86 and x64) and updated all connect strings to OraOLEDB.Oracle.1 connector.
All shared spreadsheets are working on both x86 and x64 machines due to new Oracle connector compatibility. That is fine.
The problem is some spreadsheets are taking hours to connect (not to load, but to connect), specially one that has pivot in SQL string.
Is there any special reason for the slow down of connector? If yes, how to handle this?
Thanks,
Henrique