Re: packaging Oracle client installation

Hi Andy,
[Quoted] I've taken a quick look and it looks like this is just for 10g. We're still [Quoted] on 9i though we will move to 10g at some point in the next few months. I [Quoted] also don't think it deploys the OLEDB driver for Oracle and we need that [Quoted] more than the ODBC drivers.

Ray

"Andy Hassall" <andy_at_andyh.co.uk> wrote in message news:b3fi71hceu34a0he72dapnhsmo71f6i3f7_at_4ax.com...
> On Wed, 4 May 2005 09:54:58 -0400, "Ray Porter" <ray_porter_at_unc.edu>
wrote:
>
> >Is it possible to package the necessary files, etc., so the Oracle
Windows
> >client components (ODBC, OLEDB) can be installed without the Universal
> >Installer, by a client install application (for example, InstallShield or
> >something home grown)? Is it also possible to deploy this packaged
> >installation via the web? If so, does anyone have any guidelines or
> >references to documentation on how to get started with this?
>
> Instant Client's probably your best bet here, see:
>
> http://www.oracle.com/technology/tech/oci/instantclient/instantclient.html
>
> The ODBC supplement has batch files for doing the setup - if it's like
the OCI
> stuff, there's no sign of Universal Installer.
>
> It's a lot smaller than a normal client install but it's still not
exactly
> lightweight - you're looking at 32MB.
>
> I haven't used the ODBC parts of Instant Client - just the OCI ones, and
the
> JDBC Thin driver (which is particularly convenient as it's very small, and
can
> be easily deployed over Java Web Start along with a Java application).
>
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Received on Thu May 05 2005 - 15:45:26 CEST