"Jesus M. Salvo Jr." wrote:
>
> YOu are right about BEQ not needing a listener. That is effectively how
> you create a database (or install oracle and create a database) without
> having a listener up and running yet. The following is a quote from the
> "Oracle8i Administrator's Reference Release 8.1.5 for Intel Linux":
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------
> The BEQ Protocol
>
> ...
>
> An important feature of the BEQ protocol is that no network listener is
> required for its operation, since the protocol is linked into the client
> tools and directly starts its own server process with no outside
> interaction. However, the BEQ protocol can only be used when the client
> program and Oracle8i reside on the same machine. The BEQ protocol is
> always installed and always linked to all client tools and to the
> Oracle8i Server.
> ------------------------------------------------------------
This leaves me wondering whether BEQ should be considered to be a
"proprietary hook" into the RDBMS. Can a non-oracle tool use BEQ?
Received on Mon Feb 07 2000 - 06:56:37 CST
