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Re: How to get a little Oracle ODBC driver.

From: Paul Sun <phsun_at_lucent.com>
Date: Thu, 26 Dec 2002 19:46:37 +0800
Message-ID: <aueq75$nh2@netnews.proxy.lucent.com>


Jim,

Thank you very much. I'm brand new to Oracle. There should be a Oracle support contact. Maybe I can find it. I maintain a program which access Oracle owned by someone else.

"Jim Kennedy" <kennedy-down_with_spammers_at_attbi.com> wrote in message news:B2RN9.440527$WL3.123118_at_rwcrnsc54...
> 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...
Received on Thu Dec 26 2002 - 05:46:37 CST

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