Re: Deploying Oracle Client

Mark-

You can always screw with a zipped type of package, but that can be a real hassle. Why not put the installation stuff from the CD right on the net and just run installer from the desktop? You have to mess with the thing a bit to make it look right, but that probably is the easiest safe path, plus you can update with new releases pretty easily.

Some people put the sql*net .dll files on a network drive and thereby have a single place to do upgrades, but that can be a hassle when you have to interrupt everyone at once to do the upgrade, plus you get some real performance hits at connect time. Connections can stretch out to 60 seconds or more when they could be 2-5 seconds running from a local drive.

Roger

Roger Snowden
Sr. Systems Engineering Specialist
Oracle Corporation
rsnowden_at_NOTus.oracle.com <-- to reply, remove the obvious

Mark Challen wrote:
>
> newbie here seeking advice, tips etc. on the easiest way to
> install/configure a client workstation for
> connectivity to Oracle8. I don't want to haul the Oracle Install CD around
> to each machine, so is there a "minimal installation" that I can put on the
> network and install from it?
>
> TIA
Received on Sat Dec 19 1998 - 12:05:52 CST