Re: Oracle WITHOUT client s/w.....How? (ADO ???)

Yep, your remote machine needs to have either the Microsoft OLDDB or ODBC driver for Oracle, which I think is a standard driver included in Windows, but probably needs to be updated (see http://www.microsoft.com/data/ ). You then need to get into the Control Panel, select ODBC, and assign a connection string to your Oracle server.

Then you can use ADO, DAO, or whatever to connect to the Oracle server through the connection string you assigned in the ODBC driver.

From then on, I BELIEVE you talk to Oracle in much the same way as talking to Access or SQL Server... However I'm sure there's minor but very annoying differences and omissions!!!

Charlie Barrett

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Deja User <dejacom_at_my-deja.com> wrote in message news:7pa03a$p0s$1_at_nnrp1.deja.com...
> Does anyone know how to access Oracle from a remote machine without
> having to have the Oracle Client software on the client machine? Is ADO
> the answer?
>
> Thanks and Regards,
> Phil
>
>
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Received on Thu Aug 19 1999 - 10:08:51 CDT