Re: Oracle odbc driver on win95 or 98 ?

I've used all of these ODBC drivers as well; each has some positive factor the other doesn't.

The Merant driver (previosly Intersolve) appears to perform the best unless your client
needs/is using multi-threaded code. Also, this driver suffers from bad memory leaks.
A "continuously" running app. must be stopped and restarted regularly.

Some of the drivers cannot handle dynasets (e.g., snapshots versus dynasets).

Some take freakin' forever to establish a connection (Oracle's) but are considerably
more stable if your app. has to run unattended for, oh, say, a month or two.

(Is Visigenic still crankin' drivers?)

There is no one best driver. I'm using each of them for different things.

My desktop uses the Merant driver. My db development environment uses the Oracle (8) driver.

<rock_cogar_at_my-deja.com> wrote in message news:7v4cpc$227$1_at_nnrp1.deja.com...
> ODBC Drivers for Oracle.
>
> I. Merant.
>
> A company called Marant
> (http://www.merant.com/datadirect/products/odbc/connect/overview.asp)
> makes ODBC drivers that are supposed to be more robust and faster than
> the ones that are supplied by Oracle and Microsoft. The downside to
> these products is that they are expensive.
>
> 1. Client ODBC Drivers for Oracle 8.x by Merant.
>
> $745
>
> 2. Server ODBC Drivers for Oracle 8.x by Merant.
>
> $4840
>
>
> These products can evaluated for 30 days (free) from:
>
> http://www.merant.com/datadirect/download/index.asp
>
>
> I downloaded, installed and tested the client ODBC driver for Oracle
> 8.x. It connects faster and returns result sets faster than any ODBC
> driver I have ever tested. I tested 5 connections, all of which worked
> correctly.
>
>
> II. Oracle.
>
> New Oracle ODBC drivers can be downloaded free at:
>
> http://technet.oracle.com/software/utilities/software_index.htm
>
>
> I installed this driver and still can not use it to connect to Oracle
> 8.1.5 instances in the office.
>
>
> III. Microsoft.
>
> New Oracle 8.x ODBC drivers (Microsoft Data Access Components
> 2.1.2.4202.3) by Microsoft can be downloaded free at:
>
> http://www.microsoft.com/data/download.htm?RLD=377
>
>
> This MDAC version contains the Microsoft ODBC driver for Oracle version
> 2.573.4202.00 (06/04/99). It connects fast and returns result sets
> almost as fast as the Merant ODBC driver. I tested 5 connections, all
> of which worked correctly.
>
>
> IV. Conclusion.
>
> Try the new Oracle 8.x ODBC drivers (Microsoft Data Access Components
> 2.1.2.4202.3) by Microsoft. If these are not good enough try the Merant
> drivers.
>
>
> Thanks,
> Rock Cogar.
> Oracle DBA
> Radian International LLC.
> Oak Ridge, TN.
>
>
> In article <7u2ecg$lbi$1_at_nslave1.tin.it>,
> "GOM" <nospam_at_tin.it> wrote:
> > Hi all
> >
> > There are oracle8 odbc drivers for win95 or 98?
> >
> > If yes where I can download them?
> > I have search on oracle web site but i found only for NT
> >
> > Thanks!!!!
> >
> >
>
>
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Received on Tue Oct 26 1999 - 15:10:52 CDT