Re: Oracle access trough Excel
Date: 21 Mar 1994 10:01:05 -0500
Message-ID: <e_keen.764261581_at_access3>
holowcza_at_andromeda.rutgers.edu (Richard D Holowczak) writes:
>chee77_at_xrd.chee.uh.edu (Fred Schulz) writes:
>>My understanding is that the Q&E supplied with Excel does not
>>have a driver for Oracle.
> Not true. At least for MS Excel 4.0. MS Excel 4.0 shipped with a
> "light" version of Q+E which has drivers for Oracle, SQL Server and
> RDB as well as a few flavors of dBase files.
> It's no where to be found inthe documentation yet the driver
> is clearly there.
The problem is it is utterly useless with Windows if you've got Oracle 7. The Q+E shipping with Excel is so old, you've got to call Pioneer and pay $149 for a program that calls ORA7WIN.DLL (remember, a Q+E that calls ORA6WIN.DLL is useless if you've installed a current SQL*Net)
> Now, MS-Excel 5.0 does not come with any version of Q+E as far as
> I know. They are supplying the Access database engine for
> interfacing with other databases.
>Rich Holowczak
>Rutgers University
>holowcza_at_andromeda.rutgers.edu
Received on Mon Mar 21 1994 - 16:01:05 CET