Re: Connecting Delphi / WfW3.11 to Oracle / HP-UX sql server?
Date: 1995/12/14
Message-ID: <4aoqbq$blc_at_sydney1.world.net>#1/1
Raymond
staccuc_at_riq.qc.ca (Sylvain Taccucci) wrote:
>stico!hoover_at_dim.chemie.uni-bielefeld.de (Uwe Schuerkamp) wrote:
>>Dear netters,
>>we're trying to connect to an Oracle Sql server running on an HP UX
>>host using Delphi 1.0 under Windows 3.11. We have tried to find out
>>about how to do this with the Borland support line, but people there
>>have been extremely unhelpful telling us to obtain a valid contract
>>first before they would answer such questions.
>>All we would like to know if it is possible with an out-of-the-box
>>delphi installation (or out-of-the-CD, rather :-) to access the SQL
>>server running on the HP-UX machine. It has an entry in /etc/services
>>on port 1525 which points to the name "orasrv".
>Without the Client/Server version of Delphi you can do this only by
>using an ODBC driver for Oralce and using the Delphi BDE configuration
>utility to use the ODBC driver. In this configuration you hace 2
>layer of software, BDE talks to ODBC who then talks to Oracle, so it
>can be a bit slow...
>With the Client/Server version of Delphi, Borland supply BDE driver to
>connect to Oracle so you just have to install the Oracle SQL*LINK
>driver. I use it for reaching Oracle running under OpenVMS without
>problem.
>Goof luck.
Received on Thu Dec 14 1995 - 00:00:00 CET