The Enterprise Edition can also be downloaded for free
and Oracle Personal Edition does come with jdbc drivers.
Just fire up the Installer and you will be able to confirm that
Regards
--
Sybrand Bakker
Senior Oracle DBA
to reply remove '-verwijderdit' from my e-mail address
"Simon Harvey" <noThanks_at_pdf.com> wrote in message
news:3d552478_3_at_news.teranews.com...
> Many thanks Niall.
>
> Remember though, I'm just beginning on my road to Oracle greatness so
> Enterprise might be a bit to much for me!! Wouldnt I need to have a
license
> for it? I'm just a student! I dont have a spare $25000 kicking about
>
> Kind thanks
>
> "Niall Litchfield" <n-litchfield_at_audit-commission.gov.uk> wrote in message
> news:3d5501d6$0$233$ed9e5944_at_reading.news.pipex.net...
> > I'm not sure about the fact that you have personal edition. I'd expect
> that
> > to support JDBC but it might not. For this and other reasons I'd be
sorely
> > tempted to uninstall oracle and install the enterprise edition.
> >
> > If you do have enterprise or std edition installed JDBC definitely works
> > 'out of the box'. It shouldn't be necessary to use a JDBC-ODBC bridge
> > either - i.e. you should be able to connect directly using jdbc onbce
you
> > have oracle installed and you can communicate using sqlplus.
> >
> > If you still have problems come back with the error message and folk may
> be
> > better able to help you.
> >
> >
> > --
> > Niall Litchfield
> > Oracle DBA
> > Audit Commission UK
> > *****************************************
> > Please include version and platform
> > and SQL where applicable
> > It makes life easier and increases the
> > likelihood of a good answer
> >
> > ******************************************
> > "Simon Harvey" <noThanks_at_pdf.com> wrote in message
> > news:3d54fc59_6_at_news.teranews.com...
> > > I'm guessing that when you started out with oracle there wasnt such a
> > > complete oversturation of material on the subject. I purchased about 5
> > > books, spent hours trawling the oracle site and even more time
trawling
> > > countless obscure websites and not one of them has provided the answer
> to
> > > that question in a way that is simple and easy to understand. All the
> > > articles etc that I have read deal with how to use jdbc after you have
> it
> > > working and not how to understand why it isnt working and what to do
> > should
> > > this misfortune become you. The only reason I posted to 4 (hardly
every
> > > group imaginable) is because I really needed help by today. It's for a
> Uni
> > > project.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > > Oracle comes with jdbc drivers and documentation is online at
> > > > http://otn.oracle.com
> > > > Instead of crossposting to every imagineable group please try to
> verify
> > > what
> > > > you have installed by running the Oracle installer and use other
> Oracle
> > > > provided resources.
> > > >
> > > > Regards
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > --
> > > > Sybrand Bakker
> > > > Senior Oracle DBA
> > > >
> > > > to reply remove '-verwijderdit' from my e-mail address
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
>
>
Received on Sat Aug 10 2002 - 10:44:37 CDT
