Re: MS-Access via ODBC to Oracle:How hard?

In message <1994May24.095505.1953_at_inet.d48.lilly.com> - rudy widjaja writes: In article <1994May23.130948_at_cs.man.ac.uk> jeremy_at_cs.man.ac.uk (Jeremy Rogers) writes:
>>I am interested in using MS-Access via ODBC to connect to a Unix box running
>>Oracle, probably via a serial port connection. Does anybody have any
>>experience of doing this? If you do, could you give me some idea of what this
>>entails - I`ve little or no idea about the structure of an Oracle DB (but I know
>>a man who does...) but I'm familiar with SQL and Access. Assuming I can get
>>the two boxes talking, and log onto a suitable Oracle account, what happens
>>next to type the database?
>>
>
>you can't run client server thru a serial port.
>that is a server version of the program.
>ms access talk to ODBC and then to the sqlnet to oracle thru communication protocol. like tcp/ip.
>like sybase also you have to use a protocol.
>like tcp/ip, netbios, etc.
>but not serial port.

Bzzt, guess again. You can use a slip / ppp tcp/ip connection over a serial port (i.e. modem or null modem)

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