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

rudywidjaja wrote:
: 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?
: >
: >Thanks in advance,
: >Jeremy Rogers
 

: 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.

You can run tcp/ip through a serial port - it is called SLIP. It is, however, rather slow and can be quite difficult to get set up.

Martin Bradford. Received on Wed May 25 1994 - 10:26:46 CEST