title: ORA-01019 connecting to Oracle from Excel
body: <p>I have installed Oracle 10g Express Edition. When try to test the connection I am getting the error "Error while trying to retrieve text for error ORA-01019".</p>
  
  <p>Below is my code.</p>
  
  <pre><code>  strConnection = "Driver={Microsoft ODBC for 
    Oracle};Server=Servername;Uid=username;Pwd=password;"    
    Set conn = CreateObject("ADODB.Connection")
    conn.Open strConnection
  
    conn.Close
    Set conn = Nothing
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Thanks in advance</p>