Re: Accessing OracleDB from Linux

[This followup was posted to comp.database.oracle and a copy was sent to the cited author.]

In article <346C0550.AD867927Cyberpunk_at_OUTSIDE.in-berlin.de>, Cyberpunk_at_OUTSIDE.in-berlin.de says...
> Hi
> I have to access an oracle-database over the internet. My computer is
> running Linux 2.0.31. How can I access tables in the remote
> oracle-database through PERL?
> Is there a ODBC-driver or something like a SQL*Net for LINUX?

If you don't mind writing some code you could download Oracle's thin JDBC drivers and put together a small java server app that would pass queries from PERL to Oracle and then pass the results back to your PERL app.

--rick

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