Oracle and MS-Windows DDE

From: Udo Blatzheim <udo_at_ubla.hamm.sub.org>
Date: Sat, 01 May 93 20:02:26 GMT
Message-ID: <736286546snx_at_ubla.hamm.sub.org>


In article <1993May1.012931.1485_at_oracle.us.oracle.com> skanga_at_us.oracle.com writes:

>
> In article <walker.736087220_at_base> walker_at_us.oracle.com (Walker White) writes:
> >ihollier_at_3445a.DaytonOH.NCR.COM (Ian Hollier) writes:
> >
> >>I have heard that Oracle has a DDE server for MS-Windows that will allow a
> >>DDE aware application to talk to an Oracle RDBMS. Can anybody give me some
> >>information on this product. Does it support Oracle 7?
> >
> >This product is called Oracle for Windows DDE/Toolbook Interface. It
> >allows any DDE compliant application to get access to data in an oracle
> >database through macros or other DDE interaction. ie Pull data into an
> >Excel spreadsheet directly from the database with a macro then chart it.
> >It uses the standard DDE initialize, peek, poke, etc.
> >
> >The Toolbook Interface is used to support Asymettrix Toolbook.
> >
> >#include <disclaimer.h>
>
> And then theres also ORACLE*Glue which provides this and much more. It provides > direct programmatic interfaces to Visual Basic, Excel, etc as well as DDE
> services and also can get data from palmtop machines and can interface that
> with mail and ..... and ..... and .....
 

 sorry - but isn't it technologie from yesterday? Whats about ODBC?  

 ciao,
   Udo
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Received on Sat May 01 1993 - 22:02:26 CEST

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