Re: Access MS SQL Server tables from Oracle 9i

From: IANAL_VISTA <IANAL_Vista_at_hotmail.com>
Date: Mon, 23 May 2005 14:30:37 GMT
Message-ID: <Xns965F4C66585AFSunnySD@68.6.19.6>

"Thorsten Jens" <thojens_at_gmx.de> wrote in news:1116849505.253565.178620_at_g14g2000cwa.googlegroups.com:

> Hi,
>
> I need to access MS SQL Server tables (SQL Server 2000 on Windows 2000)
> from applications running on Oracle 9i on a Solaris 8 (Sparc) server. I
> think I am in the same situation as the person in

><e70fc892.0209031332.6045a661_at_posting.google.com> (which is from 2002).

>
> I took a look at the Heterogenous Connectivity Admin Guide, and found I
> have the choice of Transparent Gateway (15K$) or Generic Connectivity.
> Has anybody used G.C. to do this before? Are there free/open source
> ODBC drivers for Solaris 8? Could I use unixODBC as a driver manager?
>
> Thorsten
>
>

PERL can inter-operate with both DBs "concurrently". Received on Mon May 23 2005 - 09:30:37 CDT