# Help on Oracle and Toad

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**Category:** Toad for Oracle & DevOps Toolkit\
**Created:** [July 13, 2010, 2:16pm UTC](https://forums.toadworld.com/t/help-on-oracle-and-toad/9688 "2010-07-13T14:16:28Z")\
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**Author:** ![Ram656](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/9de0a6/32.png) [@Ram656](https://forums.toadworld.com/u/Ram656)\
**Post date:** [July 13, 2010, 2:16pm UTC](https://forums.toadworld.com/t/help-on-oracle-and-toad/9688/1 "2010-07-13T14:16:28Z")

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hi All,

I have Win7 (64 bit). Which version of Oracle and Toad work well?

Please help me

Thanks

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**Author:** ![JohnDorlon](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/quest/user_avatar/forums.toadworld.com/johndorlon/32/9997_2.png) [@JohnDorlon](https://forums.toadworld.com/u/JohnDorlon)\
**Post date:** [July 13, 2010, 2:16pm UTC](https://forums.toadworld.com/t/help-on-oracle-and-toad/9688/2 "2010-07-13T14:16:28Z")

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Any Toad version should be OK. Just be sure of two things:

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**Author:** ![Ram656](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/9de0a6/32.png) [@Ram656](https://forums.toadworld.com/u/Ram656)\
**Post date:** [July 13, 2010, 2:32pm UTC](https://forums.toadworld.com/t/help-on-oracle-and-toad/9688/3 "2010-07-13T14:32:59Z")

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Hi,

Thanks for your response.

I tried 11g -64 bit… Toad ver 9.1 never recognized the oracle Home.

I tried 11g 32 bit- Toad recognizes oracle home. But while connecting I get the following error message.

“OCI version 11.2.0.1.0 Production is not supported.”

I am not able to install Oracle 10g on my system. Oracle says , it is incompatible.

Thanks for your help  
Ram

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**Author:** ![JohnDorlon](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/quest/user_avatar/forums.toadworld.com/johndorlon/32/9997_2.png) [@JohnDorlon](https://forums.toadworld.com/u/JohnDorlon)\
**Post date:** [July 13, 2010, 2:32pm UTC](https://forums.toadworld.com/t/help-on-oracle-and-toad/9688/4 "2010-07-13T14:32:59Z")

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Oh. Well, the problem you have now is that Toad 9.1 came out way before 11g  
client, and the two just are not compatible. Toad 9.7 or newer can connect  
with an 11g client. Maybe also Toad 9.5, but I can’t remember for sure  
about that one.

Try installing a 32 bit 10g instant client. That should get you going.

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**Author:** ![HillbillyToad](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/quest/user_avatar/forums.toadworld.com/hillbillytoad/32/190_2.png) [@HillbillyToad](https://forums.toadworld.com/u/HillbillyToad)\
**Post date:** [July 13, 2010, 3:08pm UTC](https://forums.toadworld.com/t/help-on-oracle-and-toad/9688/5 "2010-07-13T15:08:01Z")

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9.5 should be good, but that’s no longer supported by Quest.

If you’re going to upgrade, you might as well upgrade to v10.

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**Author:** ![vali7799](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/9de053/32.png) [@vali7799](https://forums.toadworld.com/u/vali7799)\
**Post date:** [March 21, 2016, 5:07am UTC](https://forums.toadworld.com/t/help-on-oracle-and-toad/9688/6 "2016-03-21T05:07:45Z")

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hi…

how to get user id and password for the client in tns selection mode