Re: Help:Accessing databases on Unix

In article <ae4d4o$43g$1_at_ih292.ea.unisys.com>, "icety" <guess_at_what.com> wrote:

> Hi
>
> Please help with newbie question. We want to install an oracle database on a
> Unix server and the application to manipulate on Windows platform.
>
> The question is, do we need any special OBDC drivers for Windows in order to
> access Oracle on Unix?
> or
> Are the any setting/ drivers from Unix Oracle that will allow windows
> application to communicate with it?

Much depends on the application and how it's written. Oracle provides its own mechanism, called SQL*Net (or Net8) that provides all the needed communication components to allow its own Windows client software (SQL*Plus, OEM, etc.) to work. Some software requires the addition of ODBC but that's not always necessary.

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