Re: newbie ?: what is required to access Oracle using jdbc

Oracle 7.3.4 and onwards come with JDBC drivers. So, yes you need to find out whether you installed the software you should already have.
Http://technet.oracle.com has also sample code using the jdbc drivers.

Hth,

Sybrand Bakker, Oracle DBA

"Bonminh Lam" <no_spam_at_bmlam.de> wrote in message news:3A1EA972.9CD14804_at_bmlam.de...
> Situation:
>
> 1. The normal Oracle client stuff is set up (I can run SQLPLUS and TOAD
> to access Oracle 8.0.4)
> 2. I have installed JDK 1.3 from SUN and the "HelloWorld" programme is
> working
>
> Question:
>
> am I all set to write a Java program to access the database or do I need
> to get stuff like JDBC drivers or find out if it has been installed. In
> a JAVA code sample I found, it says I need to specifify the proper
> driver name :
>
> String connString = "jdbc:my_driver_at_the_sid";
>
> How to find out what to put in place of my_driver?
>
> Thanks
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Received on Fri Nov 24 2000 - 20:31:50 CET