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dramus
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5 years ago

Getting Power BI Desktop to work with Oracle ODAC AFTER version 12.2

Power BI Desktop needs the Oracle data providers installed at the machine level. After ODAC 12.2, Oracle removed this option from the install, which means out of the box Oracle 18.x and 19.x ODAC ins...
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Anonymous
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5 years ago

dramus Thanks. I have already downloaded. Please see the below screen shot. I am confused about your STEP 4 which setup.exe we need to RUN under which folder?

Thanks

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dramus
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5 years ago

In the top level of the folder that you unzipped the download to, there should be 2 folders and 2 files. The 2 files are setup.ini and setup.exe, you need to run the setup.exe file.

 

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    Anonymous
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    5 years ago

    dramus thanks and appreciate your patience, the only contents i see under the exracted files are in the snapshot. I do not see any setup.exe files.

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      dramus
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      5 years ago

      That's the 12.2 install of ODAC, my post was for the 19.3 install.

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        Anonymous
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        5 years ago

        Oh ok . Thanks a lot for your patience and time , will repost my ask.

        Thanks