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Re: Zero Client front end to Oracle

From: Volker Hetzer <volker.hetzer_at_ieee.org>
Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2003 18:10:17 +0200
Message-ID: <bc7k99$ukp$1@dackel.pdb.sbs.de>


Jim Kennedy wrote:
> Even with that dll you are not going to be able to communicate with
> the backend without the underlying driver.
Maybe I'm just learning something new, but Ialways thought that the client needs the client odbc interface (typically the MS ODBC driver) and the database server then receives the ODBC calls and translates them into native calls.
Communication goes over a standardized protocol on top of TCP/IP.

Lots of Greetings!
Volker

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