Re: Choices for ODBC on PC

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The lates drivers from Oracle for NT still sucks. After half an hour it simply dies and a new connection should be established. When used with IIS3 it kills the IIS3 server leaving a ready to reboot server....

Wessel

Kaboel Karso wrote:

> Hi,
>
> As as I know all ODBC drivers working against Oracle are two-tier,
> meaning they all need SQL*Net. The only single tier ODBC-driver I've
> heard of is of the MS SQLServer.
>
> From the Oracle CD you can install just SQL*Net.
>
> If your clients are ms windows based, you should have received a
> client cd as well with all the client stuff. The 16bits odbc driver
> from Intersolve I used (till last year), was much stabler than the
> Oracle one. I don't know what the status is now.
>
> Cheers,
>
> On Thu, 05 Feb 1998 19:54:54 -0500, Robert Rombaut
> <rrom_at_lle.rochester.edu> wrote:
>
> >I am trying to determine the best ODBC driver to install on all of our
> >users PCs. I am investigating this because we are in the midst of
> >migrating from Ingres6.4 to Oracle8 on Solaris2.6.
> >
> >I have looked at the Oracle ODBC drivers, but they require SQLnet. This
> >might not be a problem if SQLnet came bundled by itself, but it seems
> >that its only available from installing other Oracle products - maybe
> >I'm wrong ?
> >
> >Other ODBC vendors don't use SQLnet, but they require server side
> >software to be installed.
> >
> >Bottom line is that I would like to go with an ODBC driver thats easy to
> >install, bulletproof and fast - Yeah right!
> >
> >I'm all ears.
> >
> >Thanks
> >-rrr
> >
> >--------------------------------
> >Bob Rombaut
> >Laboratory for Laser Energetics
> >Email: rrom_at_lle.rochester.edu
> >--------------------------------
>
> Kaboel Karso
Received on Sat Feb 07 1998 - 00:00:00 CST