Nope. We connect using a Microsoft ODBC driver for Oracle. I'm pretty sure
it's only SQLNet components but I'm not sure exactly what SQLNet is
comprised of. All I'm sure of is that once these components are installed we
just add the alias name to the tnsnames.ora file and then add a DSN
connection to that alias via the ODBC datasources interface in WindowsNT and
Win2K.
"Mike Wagner" <wmichael_at_aon.at> wrote in message
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> Hello
> > What exactly is needed to connect a client application to an Oracle db?
> Our
> > current standard procedure is to install the Oracle client software
> > (anything ranging from v7.3.3 on up to 9i). I recently travelled to a
> > European site to train users on the software and their support people
were
> > able to achieve the connection without installing the client. I believe
> that
> > had a script that only installed SQL Net components. I'm interested in
> > finding out the minimum required components so that I can write a silent
> > installation procedure for our VB6 application that installs our app as
> well
> > as the components needed for the db connection. Our customers have
> requested
> > this since they don't want to deal with two separate installs for one
> > application. Any comments or advice would be appreciated. Thanks.
> It is possible that they have used a JDBC driver ? With JDBC you only nedd
> two files classes12.zip and nlslang.zip
>
> Mike
>
>
Received on Mon May 13 2002 - 07:48:40 CDT
