Re: How to get a little Oracle ODBC driver.

Yes, to use the Oracle driver they have to have the Oracle client. If they have an Oracle database already then somewhere in their organization they have the Oracle client. They could install that first and then install the Oracle ODBC driver(which is small in comparison). They are still going to need to configure their tnsnames.ora file etc. regardless of the ODBC driver. So someone at their place must know how to do a plain Oracle client install and create the correct tnsnames.ora file. Or are you expecting people to download this driver and just connect to some sort of Oracle database without getting IT involved?

Did you call Oracle? I am assuming you have a support contract. Jim

"Paul Sun" <phsun_at_lucent.com> wrote in message news:au8e4h$6ke_at_netnews.proxy.lucent.com...
> Jim,
>
> You are so kind. Thank you very much.
> My problem is the Oracle driver need customers installed Oracle client
> before but I believe most of users did not install oracle on their PC.
What
> I need is only Oracle driver instead of the tools provided by Oracle. I
> would not let users download so large a file and only install a little.
Can
> we give users a file only contains necessary components to download?
>
>
> --
> Regards
>
> Paul Sun
> Email: phsun_at_lucent.com
>
> "Jim Kennedy" <kennedy-down_with_spammers_at_attbi.com> wrote in message
> news:EAtN9.429355$%m4.129871_at_rwcrnsc52.ops.asp.att.net...
> > If the customer already has Oracle then you can assume they have the
> Oracle
> > client and just send them the driver (which is much smaller).
> > Jim
>
>
Received on Mon Dec 23 2002 - 22:05:53 CST