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Morning Niall,
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Windows is a pain for doing stuff like that. Have of a Windows install is dlls to support Microsoft compiler tools (ie run time libraries for VB, C, C++ ....) so that MS marketing can say 'our compiler produces much smaller code than Borland's does' for example, knowing full well that the MS app was compiled using runtime libraries and the Borland one was statically linked.
Alternatively, when you distribute an app compiled using VC++ you only have to distribute x Mb of files, but with Borland you have to distribute x * y Mb. Again, all the bleeding dlls are already on the system just in case you ever install anything compiled with an MS tool.
This marketing b*llsh*t really gets on my (* Y *) (some smilies are better than others !)
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Cheers,
Norm.
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-----Original Message-----
From: Niall Litchfield [mailto:niall.litchfield_at_dial.pipex.com]
Posted At: Thursday, June 12, 2003 5:27 PM
Posted To: server
Conversation: Zero Client front end to Oracle
Subject: Re: Zero Client front end to Oracle
"Volker Hetzer" <volker.hetzer_at_ieee.org> wrote in message
news:bc7khc$ul9$1_at_dackel.pdb.sbs.de...
> Holger Baer wrote:
> > Volker Hetzer wrote:
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> >> 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 ***************************************** Please include version and platform and SQL where applicable It makes life easier and increases the likelihood of a good answer ******************************************Received on Fri Jun 13 2003 - 04:53:36 CDT
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