Re: Programming for Oracle without Oracle's libraries

ODBC drivers for Oracle are difficult to find. Visigenic used to make one.

Oracle used to support Macintosh, so all the Oracle libraries do exist for the Macintosh if you can find an old CD-Rom with the Macintosh implementations of Pro-C, OCI, etc. If you have an Oracle support contract, they should be able to provide this stuff as well.

Better yet, use JDBC with Oracle's JDBC thin driver which is platform independent. Of course, then we're no longer talking about C development. But the future of Macintosh support by Oracle suggests that Java is the way to go.

On Fri, 11 Dec 1998 16:06:49 -0000, "Alan Patil" <Alan_Patil_at_msn.com> wrote:

>Do you have an ODBC client for the Mac, you can use this to talk to an
>Oracle 7/8 database.
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> Al
>
>Gerd Dauenhauer <gdauen_at_cosy.sbg.ac.at> wrote in message
>news:366FC8AB.1E7EC571_at_cosy.sbg.ac.at...
>>Hi,
>>does anyone know how to use the Oracle 8.0.x database without having the
>>oracle libraries? Is the Protocol specified somewhere, so I can simply
>>use a TCP/IP-socket connection?
>>
>>Why would i want to do this?
>>I'm a C-programmer, using an unsupported platform, i.e. the Macintosh
>>:-(
>>
>>Thanks,
>>Gerd
>>
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Received on Fri Dec 11 1998 - 13:01:23 CST