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Re: Install Oracle server vs client

From: Van Messner <vmessner_at_netaxis.com>
Date: Fri, 20 Aug 1999 18:13:51 -0400
Message-ID: <Exkv3.13419$x04.812270@typ11.nn.bcandid.com>


The Oracle server is what you're thinking of as Oracle and what you need to install to run your database. Oracle client is just software that sits on clients and allows them to communicate with the server.

<xo55ox_at_hotmail.com> wrote in message news:7pk393$3au$1_at_nnrp1.deja.com...
> Hi,
>
> I need to install Oracle for a computer with NT 4.0; however, I am not
> sure whether it needs the Oracle server or the client version since the
> end users just need to run some Crystal report and some visual basic
> application against the Oracle. Is it possible for the crystal report to
> run against an Oracle's database on the same machine? How should I
> connect or set it up? Also does this machine requires a fix ip?
>
> Thank you very much.
>
>
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Received on Fri Aug 20 1999 - 17:13:51 CDT

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