Re: Oracle Universal Installer...

Sebastian Kraus wrote:

>Good morning!
>
>I originally wanted to simply install an ODBC Driver on a Windows 2000
>machine. I was going to http://technet.oracle.com/, and after confirming,
>that i am not a terrorist and i also don't plan to build chemical or
>biological weapons with my ODBC Client, i was finally able to download a 1.4
>MB sized file.
>
>I happily extracted the EXE file into my TEMP dir, and searched for a
>setup.exe. As you can imagine, that would be too simple. So I decidet to
>read the readme. And it said, that I need the Oracle Universal Installer. No
>problem! I was going another times to http://technet.oracle.com/, and i was
>searching for an Oracle Universal Installer. One hour later, I was reading
>in google groups, that i have to install the Oracle 9i Client, which comes
>with the OUI, and after that I can install my ODBC driver.
>
>Please could anyone confirm, that I have to download _180 MB_ for a software
>packet, which I don't need, to install my ODBC driver?
>
>best regards
>Sebastian Kraus
>Germany.
>
>
>

I think you have a huge misconception about how one connects to Oracle through ODBC: You don't. Or at least not without installing Oracle's client software. You see ... Oracle isn't a Microsoft product and isn't able to leverage a monopoly.

Get the Oracle Client software, which includes the installer and ODBC, and you should have no problem. BTW: Why are you going through so much angst? If you have access to the database ... the client software is on the same CD.

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