Re: What is the "oracle client"

I may be wrong Benjamin but I believe that they are referring to the Oracle client utilities that ship with the Oracle DB. You should have a CD somewhere that is labelled something like "Client Utilities". Install the programs on that CD and you should be in.

Erin Peterson

"Benjamin L May" <blm14_at_konichiwa.cc.columbia.edu> wrote in message news:8oj3qn$am$1_at_newsmaster.cc.columbia.edu...
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> I'm currently developing a system that uses BEA Systems WebLogic
> server. BEA says that, if I want to be able to connect to an oracle
 database
> on another server (which is the way we want to do it), then I need to have
> a "full version of oracle client running."
>
> I've searched all over oracle's website, and I can't find diddly about
> any Oracle client. Does anyone know what this is, or what it's really
 called or
> where I can obtain it?
>
> Specifically I'm having this problem where I can't connect and I keep
> getting errors about the linker being unable to load "OCI.dll" which I
 cannot
> find anywhere on the machine that is running weblogic.
>
> Any help would be greatly appreciated
>
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