"Volker Hetzer" <volker.hetzer_at_ieee.org> wrote in message
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> Holger Baer wrote:
> > Volker Hetzer wrote:
<snip>
> >> Would the ODBC client dll count as "nothing"?
> >
> > No. It would count as insufficient - if I'm not completely cooked
> > (what with currently about 35°C and no air conditioning) the ODBC dll
> > sits on top of the Oracle Client so you'll need that as well.
> I always thought the db specific part sits on the server machine?
No. The ODBC client (unless you are talking about the thin ones from Merant)
require a database client on the clientside as well, for fairly obvious
reasons. This tends to fool people from an MS Background as typically the
SQLServer client libraries get installed as part of MDAC. ADO also requires
a client but doesn't have the overhead of ODBC and OO4O also requires a
client but is Oracle specific.
--
Niall Litchfield
Oracle DBA
Audit Commission UK
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Received on Thu Jun 12 2003 - 11:26:36 CDT
