Jim,

Are you able to ping the Oracle DB from the command prompt?

Type: "tnsping EDSSP.WORLD"

in a command window. If not successful then maybe you have a problem with
your tnsnames.ora

Tim

"Jim Heavey" wrote in message
...
I am attempting to connect to an Oracle table.

When I record a macro to connect, it generates the following code.

With ActiveSheet.QueryTables.Add(Connection:=Array(Arra y( _

"ODBC;DSN=PRG_OPS;UID=YYYYYY;PWD=XXXXXXXX;DBQ=EDSS P.WORLD;DBA=W;APA=T;EXC=F;FEN=T;QTO=T;FRC=10;FDL=1 0;LOB=T;RST=T;GDE=F;FRL=F;BAM="
_
)

I converted this to:
strCnn = "Provider=OraOLEDB.Oracle.1;Password=XXXXXXXXX;Use r
ID=YYYYYYY;Data
Server=EDSSP.WORLD;Persist Security Info=True"

I am guessing that perhaps the "OraOLEDB.Oracle.1". What and how do I
know
what to place in this field.

I am getting the following error:

-2147467259: ORA-12560: TNS:protocol adapter error