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tjukken
8 years agoAdvocate II
Oracle connection error: Object reference not set to an instance
Hi I'm trying to connect to an Oracle 11g database (not local), but I do only receive an error message. First I write in the servername/ip-address/tnsnames on the Oracle server and then I'm displ...
v-chuncz-msft
8 years agoCommunity Support
- tjukken8 years agoAdvocate II
Thanks for your answer, but I need to be sure that I understand your suggestion correctly.
Would you like me to use Windows credientals instead of SQL / Basic identification?
Best regards
Andreas H
- tjukken8 years agoAdvocate II
I haven't anything more from you regarding this case and I'm still stuck / can't connect to the database with PBI desktop. I have spoken to the client and they have no intension adding authentication via an Windows user/AD-solution (like this: https://docs.oracle.com/database/121/NTQRF/active_dir.htm#NTQRF270).
Is there any other way to solve this? More debugging?
Best regards
Andreas H
- v-chuncz-msft8 years agoCommunity Support