Re: Oracle ODBC drives

From: Billy Verreynne <vslabs_at_onwe.co.za>
Date: Tue, 21 Apr 1998 07:56:09 +0200
Message-ID: <6hhc8p$so1$1@hermes.is.co.za>

Jarno Komulainen wrote in message <353B1864.43D2_at_finhost.fi>...
>Is there ODBC drivers for Oracle7 for Solaris? I found ODBC
>drivers for Windows but not Solaris or any Unix system ?!?!

I assume you're looking for an ODBC driver that runs on Unix? Doubt if there are any. ODBC is a Microsoft standard that was created for the Windows operating systems only. You will thus only get ODBC drivers that runs on Windows, Win'95 and WinNT.

And why on earth any vendor would want to implement such a er... shitty standard on Unix is beyond me. :-)

Remember that ODBC is a high level client interface. You seldom get Unix machines being used in any organisation as the standard client operating system. Even if some poor sod decides to developed an ODBC driver on some Unix platform, it is very unlikely that there are any real market demands to justify the development costs.

Oh yes, another bummer is that the ODBC DDK (driver development kit) is only available for Windows. Thus, before you can even start doing ODBC development, you probably will have to port large portions of the ODBC DDK to Unix C first.

regards,
Billy Received on Tue Apr 21 1998 - 00:56:09 CDT