Re: ODBC on unix

On Jul 16, 1:36 pm, Susan <susan..._at_hotmail.com> wrote:
> On Jul 16, 9:42 am, hpuxrac <johnbhur..._at_sbcglobal.net> wrote:
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> > On Jul 16, 2:55 am, Susan <susan..._at_hotmail.com> wrote:
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> > > 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?
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> > > I also found a unix ODBC driver inwww.unixodbc.org. Do I need that
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> > > Thanks.
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> > Usually ODBC drivers are installed on one or more client(s) ( windows
> > machine usually) not the database server.
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> > For example, Microsoft access which runs on a windows client machine
> > can use an ODBC driver to retrieve information from a database server.
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> 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

Does the 3rd party app vendor have install documentation to look at? If not I would contact their tech support and probably would do that anyway.

It just seems very strange to me to have a solaris based app use ODBC versus better alternatives to make database calls. Received on Mon Jul 16 2007 - 14:04:51 CDT