Re: Best Way to Access remote Oracle 10.2.0.1.0 DB from a Linux server

From: bdbafh <bdbafh_at_gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2007 14:47:41 -0800 (PST)
Message-ID: <5fcf92db-adcc-4295-953a-799812281d0a@v4g2000hsf.googlegroups.com>

On Nov 16, 5:10 pm, Johan <johang..._at_yahoo.com> wrote:
> I want to use a perl or unix script running on a linux server to
> access an Oracle v. 10.2.0.1.0 database on a remote machine, and
> process the output with the script. What is the best way to do this?
> I'm thinking some possible options are: install Oracle 11 cllient
> (assume it is backwards compatible), install the entire Oracle
> database v.11, or install Oracle express. Appreciate your comments.
>
> Johan

If you're using sqlldr, I'd go with the 10.2 client and the 10.2.0.3 patchset on both client and server. I'd also apply the latest critical patch update on the database server.

But that's just me.

-bdbafh Received on Tue Nov 20 2007 - 16:47:41 CST