RE: oracle client on PC's

Ah, Merant is just down the street, sort of.

Maybe they'll loan me one. :)

Thanks for the explanation. The concept isn't new, but the terminology is.

Jared

On Tue, 2004-01-06 at 14:09, Grant Allen wrote:
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Jared Still [mailto:jkstill_at_cybcon.com]
> > Sent: Wednesday, 7 January 2004 07:45
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> > Subject: Re: oracle client on PC's
> >
> >
> > What is a 'wire-protocol' ODBC driver?
> >
> > Jared
>
> It's an ODBC driver that either speaks the native network protocol for the DB by itself, or talks via a very thin layer to a server side component that then translates. Both options mean no typical DB client is required on the machine running the ODBC app.
>
> Merant/DataDirect/Whatever-they're-called-this-week make quite a few of these.
>
> Ciao
> Fuzzy
> :-)
>
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