kwatog & co. » pl/sql developer http://kwatog.com tech notes and general nonsense Wed, 25 Aug 2010 05:46:46 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Could not locate OCI dll Error http://kwatog.com/blog/oracle/could-not-locate-oci-dll-error/ http://kwatog.com/blog/oracle/could-not-locate-oci-dll-error/#comments Wed, 23 Sep 2009 13:02:29 +0000 admin http://kwatog.com/?p=151 If you are using 10g client with PL/SQL developer, you may encounter the message “Initialization error: Could not locate OCI dll” when launching PL/SQL Developer. It does not happen with the 8i client so I already suspected that it must be with the 10g client that I recently installed. Luckily, I found this thread in Oracle OTN forum and the solution seems to be easy.

All I have to do is copy a whole bunch of files from the ORAHOME folder to ORAHOME\bin. It seems like PL/SQL Developer is hardwired to find the files under the bin folder. It did the trick and my sql editor is now working. I hope it fixes yours too.

Here’s the screenshot of the files I copied. Take note that I copied them instead of just moving so as not to break anything.

oracle_files_copy_to_bin

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