Re: Zero Client front end to Oracle

Sounds like your company wants to investigate Oracle Discoverer (as part of the Oracle App Server). Entirely web based - no client install at all.

Another options include 'thin JDBC' which gets downloaded on demand by the Java application running in the browser.

Final option I know of is using pure ASP/JSP stuff in the browser banging against a semi-intelligent middle tier. That means a fair bit of intensive coding.

Barring that, IIRC, you are pretty well stuck with at least Oracle's client side Networking (Net8, Oracle Net Services) even to support traditional ODBC drivers.Note: AFAIK, all ODBC drivers require some form of transport interface and some have it included but I know of no Oracle drivers that have it included.

/Hans

Rich wrote:

> I need to create a front end to an Oracle database. The company I work
> for requires that I use VB scripts. And they do not want anything
> installed on the end user's PC.
>
> The front end must be able to allow users to interactively ( thru pull
> down menus, combo boxes etc . . . ) create SQL statements. Then the
> SQL statements will query the back end Oracle tables. The data is to
> be retrieved and sent the Excel spreadsheets on the end users desktop.
>
> Can the above be done with Oracle and VB scripts on an intranet?
Received on Wed Jun 11 2003 - 18:58:57 CDT