Re: Sharing Data Across Platforms?

Oracle has a transparent gateway for MSSQL.

In article <325E6B6C.6168_at_ibm.net>, joel_klebanoff_at_ibm.net wrote:
>Les Gainous wrote:
>>
>> Using Oracle 7.1 (on a DEC Alpha--Unix) and MS SQL Server 6.0 (on an
>> Intel box--Windows NT), what's the best way to "share" data? They are
>> both on the same network LAN.
>>
>> How can I move data from one machine to another? Do I bulk-copy to
>> ascii, then bulk-copy back in to the destination server? Is there a
>> "cleaner" way to do this?
>>
>> My final question is probably a loaded question but...is there such a
>> thing as cross-platform joins in queries on these database servers?
>>
>> Thanks in advance!
>> --
>> Les Gainous, lesgainous_at_earthlink.net
>>
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>
>Praxis has a couple of products that might help. Their OmniReplicator
>does change capture replication from Oracle to MS SQL Server and they've
>announced support for the other direction, but I'm not sure of the
>delivery date for support for that direction.
>
>Praxis' OmniCopy provides networked, automated snapshot copies of
>databases (it can select portions of the database for copying). Platform
>support is the same as for OmniReplicator.
>
>Their web site is http://www.praxisint.com
>
Received on Fri Oct 11 1996 - 00:00:00 CEST