Re: Oracle ODBC "legacy" drivers -- clear up confusion?

sqora73n.dll is the Oracle's 16-bit odbc driver for the Oracle db. It should work with 7.2 and 7.3. Well, you could not find a INF file... because it does not come with one. Oracle bundles the driver with the standard Oracle installer.... as the driver alone is useless... one also needs to install the oracle client libs.

You can download the installable version from www.oracle.com

-sm

On 8 Nov 1997 02:06:31 GMT, cybersaurn_at_aol.com (CyberSaurn) wrote:

>I find myself in a situation where there is a "legacy" Oracle driver on a
> central LAN. Don't know the history of it (involved parties moved to greener
> pastures), where it came from, what brand of driver, etc. I'm trying to
> install it on additional LAN client workstations and am getting the infamous
> missing ODBC.INF. Can't find any ODBC.INF files lurking about on said LAN that
> seem compatible with it. But the driver has previously been installed for
> other of these clients under NT and it works fine connecting to Access 2.0 and
> Oracle 7.2.3.
>
>The driver is sqora73n.dll. From the workstation configurations on which it
> runs, my guess is it is a 16-bit driver for Oracle 7.3, using TCP/IP (but
> works with Oracle 7.2.3?), but I don't know if it is Oracle's own driver, or
> an Intersolv driver or the latest from Joe's Bargain ODBC Drivers....
>
>Anyone (a) know what driver we have here?
>(b) where I can get a compatable ODBC.INF (or rig one)?
>(c) how they installed it without the INF in the first place (assuming they did
> -- they may have had a floppy in addition to the LAN file). Rumor has it
> ODBC.INI was modified directly (Gasp! Say it isn't so!!!! Arrgh! <g>))
>
>Just trying to make some sense out of ".DLLHell"... Any info much appreciated.
> Thanks in advance!
Received on Thu Nov 13 1997 - 00:00:00 CST