RE: Oracle -> SQL Server

Christopher,

What OS is your Oracle DB on?

If on NT and your version >= 816 then you can use the heterogeneous services - for some more information see Metalink / doco:

I found note 114820.1 helpful - "QUICK START GUIDE: WIN NT - Generic Connectivity using ODBC"
Also note 109730.1 - How to setup generic connectivity (Heterogeneous Services) for Windows NT

If your Oracle is on Unix then you could also use Heterogeneous services, provided you can get a SQL Server ODBC driver for Unix.

Regards,
Bruce Reardon

-----Original Message-----
Sent: Wednesday, 3 October 2001 7:25

I was thinking that same thing as the easiest way as I know transparent isn't cheap and there probably isn't an easy way.

I was going to use Perl/Java to make something if there isn't any other way like the OPENQUERY option in SQL Server to look at oracle tables.

Christopher R. Spence
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-----Original Message-----
Sent: Tuesday, October 02, 2001 4:14 PM
Cc: cspence_at_FuelSpot.com

Oh geez, here I go again.

This is trivial with Perl, DBD::Oracle and DBD::ODBC.

Whether it is useful to you depends on a number of things.

• can you use an Oracl copy of the SQL server data?
• does the data always need to be fresh?
• how fresh?
• how big is it?

Since it's temporary, this may work for you.

Jared  

I know there is a way in SQL server to query oracle tables, is there a way to do the reverse?

I am looking at trying to create access from an Oracle DB to SQL Server data until we convert the SQL server database.

Anyone have any ideas on this, I searched technet (ms/oracle) and metalink, as well as some search engines without luck.

Christopher R. Spence

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