Re: ODBC Drivers For Oracle7
Date: Thu, 10 Mar 1994 10:24:55
Message-ID: <P.Healey.14.000A6A9C_at_BoM.GOV.AU>
In article <CM3wqr.9vx_at_spss.com> brent_at_spss.com (Brent Lambert) writes:
>From: brent_at_spss.com (Brent Lambert)
>Subject: Re: ODBC Drivers For Oracle7
>Date: Thu, 3 Mar 1994 20:54:26 GMT
>In article <CM1oG3.44n_at_csc.ti.com>, anturner_at_sc1500.dseg.ti.com (Alan N Turner) writes:
>> I've been trying to find any ODBC drivers for Oracle7. Microsoft
>> disavows any knowledge of Oracle7. They say their ODBC drivers
>> support Oracle 6 only.
>In fact, their Oracle driver works relatively well with Oracle7 as
>long as you don't want to use any features which were introduced in
>Oracle7. Also, I wouldn't bet my business on its reliability (it's
>from Microsoft, after all). But for short-term, non-critical use, you
>might want to give it a try.
>> I have found an Oracle7 ODBC driver on CompuServe, but it's from
>> PageAhead.
>>
>> Conversations with Oracle Corp. (when you can get one) are absolutely
>> mind-boggling. First, they say there are no ODBC drivers yet ready
>> for Oracle7 and when they are ready, they'll cost you extra, even if
>> you spent mega-bucks on their DBMS.
>Yes. They are planning to treat it like any other add-on product,
>like SQL*Net. It is tentatively planned to be distributed as part of
>some sort of connectivity package, although this is not firmly decided.
>> Second, they tried to sell us Oracle Glue instead, for a mere $3,000.
>I've been told by Oracle users that Glue is faster than ODBC (surprise!).
>> The next comment was that the
>> Oracle7 ODBC drivers were in Oracle Glue. What! You just said the
>> ODBC drivers weren't ready.
>>
>> It sure seems like the inmates are running the asylum out in
>> Redwood Shores.
>Yes.
[snip]
>Q+E Software (800-876-3101) sells an ODBC driver pack for $199 which
>includes drivers for Oracle 6 and Oracle7, not to mention Sybase,
>Ingres, Paradox, and half a dozen more. The Q+E drivers I've used are
>pretty good, although I've had several problems with their Sybase/SQL
>Server driver.
I pressume the Q + E product still requires SQL*Net. I'm very confused about the requirements for client server development in Oracle.
Perhaps I'm not alone.
Could someone tell me what is required to develop clients on VB3 (and VC++)?
If I have the ODBC pack that comes with VB3Pro, do I have an Oracle driver? I preumably also need the SQL*Net DLL on the clients and SQL*Net running on the server (a SUN Sparc10)
Is there anyway to avoid SQL*Net ?
[snip]
Regards
Paul Received on Thu Mar 10 1994 - 10:24:55 CET