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RE: Oracle client for Unix System V

From: Stephane Faroult <sfaroult_at_oriolecorp.com>
Date: Mon, 23 Jun 2003 08:45:26 -0700
Message-ID: <F001.005B7AF2.20030623081949@fatcity.com>


>I would like to open a connection to a Oracle
>database within a machine
>running a dialect of Unix System V Release 4.0
>(more exactly, MP-RAS SVR4
>Unix). It is a Perl ETL script that uses DBI and
>DBD::Oracle, which in turn
>needs Oracle client software. Is there a way to do
>it? Is source code for
>Oracle client available so that I can try to make
>it (compile, install and
>test) at this Unix machine?
>
>Best regards,
>
>Adriano.
>_____________________________

Hmmm, Open Source Oracle ...

Adriano, your only hope is to use a 'thin-client', but I fear that performance-wise it is a non-starter.
I would rather ftp the files to the server and run the script there.

HTH, Stephane Faroult
Oriole

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