Re: SQL clients for UNIX

Just as a note, Oracle was developed under UNIX first. Oracle clients exist for almost all Unix platforms. Any Oracle application can to talk to any other Oracle server if the approriate connections are defined eg tnsnames.ora is populated.

The major difficulty is that you need to get new tools for each OS. Oracle requires
that you purchase development tools for each platform that you are generating applications for. Transferring from one platform to another is easy. In the case of
Forms 4.5, just move the files and recompile.

Mike Krolewski.

Devin Null wrote:

> I've got NT 4.0 running Oracle 7.3 at the moment. I've been trying to
> convince my boss to convert to a UNIX-based version as we haven't started
> really doing anything with it and it wouldn't be as big a deal to change as
> if we had a live system.
>
> Personally, I run several Unices =) including FreeBSD, BSDI/OS, Solaris,
> Ultrix (don't ask - old VaxStation), and Linux and all the scripting and
> programming I've done are based in said OS's. I don't like NT but may have
> to work with it. I'm new to SQL but not to programming in general.
>
> The Big Question: Are there any Unix-based clients (like SQL Plus) that can
> work with the NT SQL server? I've tried a few including MySQL and PostgreSQL
> but can't connect. I figured this would probably happen but I figure someone
> must have been in this position before and prevailed, or at least I hope
> so...
>
> I would prefer a BSD UNIX solution but I'll settle for anything that isn't
> MS Windows... Unfortunately, Solaris is out at the moment because we can't
> upgrade our machine to anything above Solaris 2.3.
>
> Thanks...
Received on Sun Jun 28 1998 - 17:41:10 CEST