Re: Does Oracle 8i support ODBC on Linux?

From: M.Francis <msfrancisusa_at_netscape.net>
Date: 8 Jul 2001 00:02:06 -0700
Message-ID: <a6cbd3e3.0107072302.750ec7fd@posting.google.com>

no doubt, sorry bout that, other vendors supply their implementations of drivers for sets of rdbmses etc.

the free downloads from the dbms vendor are generally available for a limited set of oses and microsoft's implementation covers the windows platform including some windows emulation platforms and also addresses it's dbs as well as oracle's. one such vendor's matrix can be found at the following http://oplweb2.openlinksw.com/product/webmatrixdb.asp

ODBC is just a specification for a standard database access api, and implementation of these stds in the form of drivers can be done by any programmer/sw engineer, for any client os and server os and dbms combination, so potentially you could write your own client drivers for linux for any rdbms you choose, just comply with the CLI specs from X/OPEN and ISO/IEC.

do agree that odbc is easier to manage on windows...

cheers - mary Received on Sun Jul 08 2001 - 02:02:06 CDT