Re: ODBC

From: Ekkard Gerlach <SPS_Gerlach_at_online.de>
Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2000 03:26:18 +0100
Message-ID: <3883CF4A.89B7B43A@online.de>

Ernesto Santos wrote:
>
> Hi
> I've been working with an Informix database and accessing it using ODBC.
> Since Informix CLI is an implementation of the ODBC API, I'm able to compile
> my sources (C++) on both Windows and Linux.
>
> I´m starting a new project now and I'll be using Oracle running on Linux
> and C++ for my applications.
> I would like to keep my code platform and database vendor independent, so
> I'm trying to avoid using OCI.
>
> I have installed the ODBC client for Windows but I found no ODBC
> implementation for Linux. Is there one available?
>

ODBC is an interface from Microsoft. After the Data has passed ODBC-Driver
on a Microsoft-machine the Data has nothing to do with ODBC (I think) any longer.
So you have only to start a server for sql-services on your Linux machine. You have to start SQL-Net and the Listener. tnsnames.ora will direct the IP-packets to the right machine.

Ekkard Received on Mon Jan 17 2000 - 20:26:18 CST