Re: How to get a little Oracle ODBC driver.

The only other alternative is to try the new wire protocol ODBC drivers from

http://www.datadirect-technologies.com/products/odbc/odbcwireprot.asp

These do not need an Oracle client installed; they connect directly with the server's Listener ( Much like Java Thin-Client technology) - so if you have no installed Oracle clients this may be a way to go.

Note: I use these on my Unix box but otherwise I do not have any relationship with the company.

"Jim Kennedy" <kennedy-down_with_spammers_at_attbi.com> wrote:

>Yes, to use the Oracle driver they have to have the Oracle client. If they
>have an Oracle database already then somewhere in their organization they
>have the Oracle client. They could install that first and then install the
>Oracle ODBC driver(which is small in comparison). They are still going to
>need to configure their tnsnames.ora file etc. regardless of the ODBC
>driver. So someone at their place must know how to do a plain Oracle client
>install and create the correct tnsnames.ora file. Or are you expecting
>people to download this driver and just connect to some sort of Oracle
>database without getting IT involved?
>
>Did you call Oracle? I am assuming you have a support contract.
>Jim
>
>"Paul Sun" <phsun_at_lucent.com> wrote in message
>news:au8e4h$6ke_at_netnews.proxy.lucent.com...
>> Jim,
>>
>> You are so kind. Thank you very much.
>> My problem is the Oracle driver need customers installed Oracle client
>> before but I believe most of users did not install oracle on their PC.
>What
>> I need is only Oracle driver instead of the tools provided by Oracle. I
>> would not let users download so large a file and only install a little.
>Can
>> we give users a file only contains necessary components to download?
>>
>>
>> --
>> Regards
>>
>> Paul Sun
>> Email: phsun_at_lucent.com
>>
>> "Jim Kennedy" <kennedy-down_with_spammers_at_attbi.com> wrote in message
>> news:EAtN9.429355$%m4.129871_at_rwcrnsc52.ops.asp.att.net...
>> > If the customer already has Oracle then you can assume they have the
>> Oracle
>> > client and just send them the driver (which is much smaller).
>> > Jim
>>
>>
>
Received on Tue Dec 24 2002 - 09:46:32 CST