Oracle 9i Client connections to Oracle 7 DO work (sort of) !!

From: Norman Dunbar <Norman.Dunbar_at_lfs.co.uk>
Date: Fri, 11 Oct 2002 09:42:06 +0100
Message-ID: <E2F6A70FE45242488C865C3BC1245DA702C653DC@lnewton.leeds.lfs.co.uk>

Hi Howard,

ok, I admit - it works, but only for certain values of 'works' :o)

What TOAD uses is available from http://www.allroundautomations.com and is called direct oracle access. They say this about it :

<QUOTE>

Direct Oracle Access requires a Windows 95, 98, ME, NT4, 2000 or XP client, with SQL*Net, Net 8 or Net 9 installed. The supported Oracle Server versions are 7.x, 8.x, 8i and 9i on any platform. Direct Oracle Access is available for all recent versions of Delphi, C++Builder and Kylix.
</QUOTE>

So, they say it supports 7 on all platforms - and it appears to be so - so far anyway.

Cheers,
Norman.

Norman Dunbar
Database/Unix administrator
Lynx Financial Systems Ltd.
mailto:Norman.Dunbar_at_LFS.co.uk

Tel: 0113 289 6265
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-----Original Message-----
From: Howard J. Rogers [mailto:howardjr2000_at_yahoo.com.au] Posted At: Thursday, October 10, 2002 10:02 PM Posted To: server
Conversation: Oracle 9i Client connections to Oracle 7 DO work (sort of) !!
Subject: Re: Oracle 9i Client connections to Oracle 7 DO work (sort of) !!

<SNIP>

Reading further, I've come to the conclusion that you've just found some new
meaning of the word 'Works"!!!!

;-)

Interesting stuff, Norman: quite how TOAD pulls this off, I can't think. But the general principle of non-connectivity between the two remains, I think.

(I wanted that in black and white because I told a student that just last
week!) Received on Fri Oct 11 2002 - 03:42:06 CDT