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4
Apr

Unable To Instantiate TRIM Database: 80040154

I recently came across this error while attempting to connect to TRIM 6 R2 via the TRIMSDK: Retrieving the COM class factory for component with CLSID {8A354548-6BCB-11D3-B273-00A0C9FC3DC0} failed due to the following error: 80040154.

This was a little alarming because it was using the same data adapter as a few other TRIM projects, which were working fine; the only difference between the project was that this particular project was a WPF application, and all of the other applications were ASP.NET applications. This particular application had also previously worked fine, the only change was that I had been upgraded to a 64-bit environment.

After a bit of playing around and research I discovered the TRIM SDK will not connect under a 64-bit process.

Workaround:

  1. In Visual Studio, right-click your project and go to Properties (last item).
  2. Select the Build tab.
  3. Change the Configuration option to All Configurations.
  4. Change the Platform Target to x86.

This will ensure that your application will only run under an x86 architecture, and will be able to connect to TRIM even on a 64-bit host.

Looking at the QuickSpecs for TRIM 7 it is being based on a 64-bit architecture and therefore this issue should be eliminated come TRIM 7 (in addition to some SDK enhancements and UI integration tools).

17
Feb

Oracle 06413: Connection Not Open (x64)

Having changed to a 64-bit development machine at work recently I ran in to an Oracle error while trying to generate files using CodeSmith. This error was ORA-06413: Connection Not Open. Assuming it was a connection string error, as I had not ran this particular generation in some time and it was likely that the server or username/password had changed, I proceeded to test the connection from SQL Developer. Success!

After ruling out that the connection was indeed valid I did a quick Google search for the error message. After a few clicks I discovered a very well known (has been around for a few years) Oracle issue; When executing an Oracle command from an application with parentheses or equals — ‘(‘ or ’)’ or ‘=’ — in the path then the specified error message is thrown.

In this particular case CodeSmith had been installed under C:\Program Files (x86)\CodeSmith\ which was causing Oracle to fail. The quickest work around was to simply move CodeSmith from the Program Files (x86) path e.g. in to C:\CodeSmith\. However; there is a patch (5383042) for Oracle 10g, which I believe is also applied to Oracle 11G.