On Jul 16, 9:42 am, hpuxrac <johnbhur..._at_sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> 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.
Yes I understand that. In my case the client is a solaris unix box so
ODBC needs to be install on this unix box. Database server is on a
seperate server. Thanks.
Received on Mon Jul 16 2007 - 12:36:24 CDT
