Re: HOWTO: build application in Linux to query existing large database on another machine

What about 8.1.7 were you unable to get to work? I have 8.1.7 running on my 7.1. Mandrake Linux box and haven't encountered any problems ... I must admit though that I haven't really taxed the system yet.

However, if you have doubts about whether you can get it working, a good option might be the JDBC Thin driver .. it doesn't require any Oracle client install and is freely available for download from technet.oracle.com ... JDBC Thin is about as low impact a solution as there is ... that might be the way to go.

"William H. Fissell" <whf_at_alum.mit.edu> wrote in message news:3A80D18F.26EF3501_at_alum.mit.edu...
> Hello,
>
> I have some small experience in SQL (wrote a few very small dbs with
> tcl/Tk GUIs) using Postgres. My employer has a large Oracle based db
> and I would like to write an application to run on my Linux box to query
> it and cache a small subset of the data on the local machine. The
> employer is fine with that, but is NT-centric. There is a web-based
> interface now, but it doesn't answer my report-generating and graphing
> needs.
>
> What subsets of the oracle software that's available for Linux ought I
> to download and use? Onece developed, I don't mind paying for it, but,
> for example, I couldn't get 8.1.7EE to work on my mandrake 7.1 linux
> OS. I figured at a miniumum I should seek some advice about which
> packages I should try to use. I am not picky about the interface- I can
> write in in Java or C or use one of their tools....
>
>
> thanks in advance
>
> Bill Fissell
>
>
Received on Thu Mar 08 2001 - 02:12:45 CET