Re: ODBC on unix

From: hpuxrac <johnbhurley_at_sbcglobal.net>
Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2007 09:42:58 -0700
Message-ID: <1184604178.057910.141970@m3g2000hsh.googlegroups.com>

On Jul 16, 2:55 am, Susan <susan..._at_hotmail.com> wrote:
> I need to install a 3rd party app on a solaris server. One of the
> requirement from the app is to have ODBC driver installed. So I have
> Oracle client installed on the server including the "ODBC Driver"
> option and I can see the $ORACLE_HOME/odbc directory after the
> installation. Is that all I need to make a ODBC connection?
>
> I also found a unix ODBC driver inwww.unixodbc.org. Do I need that
> too?
>
> Thanks.

Usually ODBC drivers are installed on one or more client(s) ( windows machine usually) not the database server.

For example, Microsoft access which runs on a windows client machine can use an ODBC driver to retrieve information from a database server. Received on Mon Jul 16 2007 - 11:42:58 CDT