Re: 10g Client and Server and ODBC

In article <1130290667.016751.148520_at_f14g2000cwb.googlegroups.com>, Wotan <wotan_79_at_hotmail.com> wrote:
>We have a VB6 application that connects using ODBC to Oracle database.
>Currently we are using Oracle 8.1.7, with ODBC driver 8.1.7.1.
>
>How backwardly compatible is the ODBC driver supplied with 10g than
>that for 8i? I've looked on the web for the release notes, currently
>out of the office so don't have the disks to hand, so if someone could
>post a link of where to download them from it would be useful.

I have been unable to get Access XP/2003 to connect to an Oracle 10gR1 server using the full client; the 10.1.0.3 Instant Client works fine, but that's been removed from OTN/Technet and the 10.1.0.4 Instant Client doesn't have an ODBC component. I haven't tried the 10.2 Instant Client (company policy is to not use a client of a later release than the server, which is running 10.1.0.4).

The 9i client worked fine with 9i and 10gR1 servers, except for triggering a bug in the unpatched 10g server which caused massive database corruption.

Mike Squires
mikes at siralan.org

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