Re: oracle client on PC's

At 11:39 AM 1/6/2004, Jeffrey Beckstrom wrote:
>Rather than installing the Oracle client on every client PC, we have been:
>- installing client on 1 PC
>- copying directory to a network server
>- extract the registry for "oracle" key
>- fix registry that was extracted to reference the network drive
>- load registry on client PCs
>- add the network pc as a search drive to the client pc.
>
>We are now experiencing problems over the WAN and looking at ways to
>eliminate the Oracle dll overhead. Short of installing Oracle on every
>client PC, what are our options?

There is a reason that Oracle doesn't support configurations like this. There is a fair amount of "chatter" between an application and the Oracle client DLL's. When this chatter starts flying over the network rather than merely going to a local DLL, you start to get performance problems.

How are your application(s) designed? It's probably possible to tweak an OCI application to make fewer OCI calls. If you're using ODBC, and have the budget, you could purchase one of the wire-protocol ODBC drivers.

Justin Cave
Distributed Database Consulting

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