Re: Advice needed: VAX, Oracle, PCs

In article <1412_at_rwja.umdnj.edu>, holowczk_at_rwja.umdnj.edu (Richard Holowczak) writes...
>DEC Vax while allowing access via networked PCs. We have
>a microvax II and several IBM PS/2 machines and want to
>be able to access the database over DECNet or TCP/IP,
>whichever is better suited for this application. I have
>read that Oracle has its own drivers that can run over
>TCP/IP but I am unsure as to all of the components I need
>to tie it all together. Any comments would be helpful.

You have a plethora of choices. Oracle publishes a nifty little book that describes the possible choices through a sort of flip chart arrangement, call up your local Oracle sales critter and ask for it.

Unfortunately I never have this thing handy when someone asks this question so I'm working from memory.

You need to be running the same protocol at both ends of the connection. You need the appropriate SQL*Net drivers at both ends of the connection. For example to run over DECnet by running DEC Pathworks on the PC you need SQL*Net DECNet for the VAX and SQL*Net for DECnet (Pathworks) on the PC, alternatively if you run Wollongong WIN/TCP on the VAX and FTP Corp.'s FTP on the PC then you need SQL*Net TCP/IP for WIN/TCP for the VAX and SQL*Net TCP/IP for FTP on the PC.

If you have no network in place then DECnet Pathworks is probably the way to go for simplicity, but I have to say that don't I?

Of course this changes a bit when SQL*Net 2.0 comes along.

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