Re: accessing an oracle 7.3 server with linux box?

[Quoted] Sybrand Bakker <gooiditweg_at_nospam.demon.nl> wrote:

>On Wed, 02 Mar 2005 09:27:04 -0900, joeblow <dadude_at_casselout.dk>
>wrote:
>
>>We have an oracle 7.3 database that has historical data on it. It will
>> stay a 7.3 database until it's decommissioned, probably well after I'm
>> gone, if then.
>>
>>What's the easiest/quickest way to access that database with a client on a
>>linux box?
>
>Go to the 7.3 server, export the database, import it in any higher
>version database (minimum 9ir2) and dump the database.
>
>7.3 has been desupported in the previous century, and there has never
>been any 7.3 software for Linux.

[Quoted] In spite of that, you can install any Pre--9.2 client that is still out there for Linux and connect quite happily to the 7.3 database. Received on Fri Mar 04 2005 - 15:38:23 CET