I decided to abandon the use of PDO and simply tried to use the OCI_Connect () function to connect to the database and received the following message:
"ORA-24408: could not generate unique server group name"
... I fought a bit with this, and the answer is here: ORA-24408: it is not possible to create a unique server group name
I just post it here if someone encounters a similar error. Hope that helps someone.
Camden S.
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