"joeblow" <dadude_at_casselout.dk> wrote in message
news:pan.2004.06.22.23.03.08.809663_at_casselout.dk...
> Hey folks,
>
> We have our own isolated network that we keep critical and confidential
> and important and all those words machines, instrumentation and data on.
> On this network is an oracle 7.3 database running on solaris 2.5.1. This
> is part of the primary application that is running on this 'inside'
> network.
>
> There is now a <justifiable> business need to make the data on this
> database available to others on the enterprise, but we must maintain the
> sanctity and reliability of the 'inside' network and data and application.
>
> Before today, part of protecting this inside network was a policy of
> 'no connectivity outside, nohow, nowhere'. Obviously can't do this now.
> So we've modified our policy to 'connections to outside systems shall only
> be initiated from our side', and then we can do the pix firewall and
> 'fixup protocol' thing.
>
> But....
>
> The MIS folks want to use an SQL Server for the enterprise-available
> database. They insist that the only way to move data from an
> oracle database to an SQLServer database is that their SQLServer must
> initiate a connection to our oracle and 'pull' data.
>
> this is the method that my googling keeps bringing up as well.
>
> I'm not seeing anywhere that tells me how to set up where oracle goes out
> and connects to their sqlserver and 'pushes' our data into their
> sql server database.
>
> So, in a nutshell:
>
> Can Oracle 7.3 initiate a connection thru a pix (fixup protocol
> 1521) to an sqlserver database and transfer data -into- the sqlserver? If
> so, can someone provide pointers or urls where.
>
> Many thanks in advance
>
>
Something else could push the Oracle data out. I would recommend upgrading
Oracle to something supported like 9i. Then there are a myriad of ways to
push the data to SQLServer from Oracle.
Jim
Received on Tue Jun 22 2004 - 22:12:55 CDT
