Re: VISUAL BASIC AND QELIB

From: David Benua <dbenua_at_panix.com>
Date: 5 Jan 93 02:44:50 GMT
Message-ID: <C0D0yq.GBF_at_panix.com>


In <524.204.uupcb_at_sqlware.uunet.UU.NET> joe.bartling_at_sqlware.uunet.UU.NET (Joe Bartling) writes:

>I have been using Visual Basic under MS-Windows and connecting to ORACLE
>using QELib from Pioneer Software which connects to Oracle via SQL*Net.
>The biggest problem is that I can't connect to a local DOS ORACLE
>database (only client-server). Other than waiting for Pioneer to come
>out supporting local an Oracle DOS database, are there any other
>solutions given my front-end of Visual Basic? Has anyone heard of
>Microsoft Access? Will that help?

MS Access uses ODBC to get the data, so you need a driver which supports Oracle on DOS. As far as I know the SQL*Net driver isn't out yet, so I expect the answer is "No, it won't help"

Dave B.
dbenua_at_panix.com Received on Tue Jan 05 1993 - 03:44:50 CET

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