Re: Newbie Request for Info.

[Quoted] Without some serious Oracle experience in-house my feeling is that you folks are just asking for trouble. Oracle is not a toy like Access or SQL Server. When people try to use it without proper training/mentoring they make horrible messes and usually conclude that the problem is that there is something wrong with Oracle.

But to answer your question you can connect to the Oracle database through native tools such as SQL*Net and OCI and through generic interfaces such as ODBC and JDBC. Which means you can front-end an Oracle application with Oracle Forms, Oracle Reports, PowerBuilder, XML, Java, C, C++, Pascal, Delphi, ASP, JavaScript, HTML, VB Script, Access, Cold Fusion, Sapphire, Cognos, Seagate Crystal, and many many other products. Choose your poison.

But before you do ... please get someone inhouse that knows Oracle. And remember one important difference between Oracle and other products. To use Oracle you MUST read the manuals. Otherwise you will find yourself getting intimate with the phrase RTFM.

Daniel Morgan

Jon Blake wrote:

> We are not an Oracle house therefore my knowledge is sparce - what
> development environments does Oracle support and how - [o|j]dbc/native
> etc. Does it include VB, CA-OpenRoad etc..
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> rgds
>
> Jon
Received on Tue Jan 15 2002 - 15:52:45 CET