If you want to use Oracle then you are forced through SQL*Net. Even if you
are using OLEDB or ODBC it still comes across the SQL*Net pipe. There was
one alternative my development team tested out there that comes in looking
at IP and port but it never worked properly. If you can throw the bucks at
this and you want a very light client set up then you could look at Oracle
Application Server, Microsoft Transaction Server with MS Internet
Information Server, or even some of the lighter weight solutions intranet
based solutions.
Darren
Rafael Engelhardt wrote in message <6s7303$2m$1_at_news02.btx.dtag.de>...
>I'm a Oracle newcomer. I know MS-SQL Server, and there all I need to
acceess
>a database is a few DLL's (3) and I'm done. I can even set all this up
>automatically, so my user's dont have to enter a thing in installation
>programs, etc.
>
>From everything I've read so far, with Oracle 7 I need a 10 MB ODBC driver
>installation, with SQL*Net ,a.s.o., and the setup is pretty cryptical to
me.
>
>Isn't there an easy way to get to an Oracle Database, using TCP/IP. All I
>want is to read data, no update, no locking, etc.
>
>Thanks in advance,
>Rafael Engelhardt
>
>
Received on Wed Sep 02 1998 - 23:08:48 CDT
