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Switching between 9i and 11g clients in Windows 7

776766Aug 20 2010 — edited May 13 2012

Is it possible to have both a 9i home and 11g home on Windows 7? I need to connect to a legacy 8i server with the 9i client.

What I attempted:
1. I installed 9i, then installed 11g.
2. My connections to servers using the 11g home worked great. Connection to 8i failed (not supported).
3. Through OUI, I set 9i as the first home in the environment path.
4. The connection the 8i server worked. Connection to other servers failed.
5. Through OUI, switched back to the 11g as the first home in the environment path.
6. Connections to 8i work, but others do not. The obvious observation is that the path did not switch everything back appropriately.

I thought that multiple Oracle homes were ok? But I can't seem to switch them from 9i to 11g.

Any thoughts or ideas?

thanks.

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