Path: dp-news.maxwell.syr.edu!spool.maxwell.syr.edu!drn.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!fi.sn.net!newsfeed2.fi.sn.net!border1.nntp.ams.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!feeder.enertel.nl!nntpfeed-01.ops.asmr-01.energis-idc.net!newshub3.home.nl!newshub1.home.nl!home.nl!not-for-mail From: Frank van Bortel Newsgroups: comp.databases.oracle.server Subject: Re: Oracle Client Tools Date: Thu, 03 Mar 2005 15:43:48 +0100 Organization: @Home Benelux Lines: 27 Message-ID: References: <4226ce73$0$257$edfadb0f@dread12.news.tele.dk> <4226fa1a$0$209$edfadb0f@dread12.news.tele.dk> <4227175b$0$212$edfadb0f@dread12.news.tele.dk> Reply-To: fvanbortel@netscape.net NNTP-Posting-Host: cc28855-a.hnglo1.ov.home.nl Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: news4.zwoll1.ov.home.nl 1109860886 25703 212.204.168.125 (3 Mar 2005 14:41:26 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@corp.home.nl NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 3 Mar 2005 14:41:26 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (Windows/20041206) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en In-Reply-To: <4227175b$0$212$edfadb0f@dread12.news.tele.dk> Xref: dp-news.maxwell.syr.edu comp.databases.oracle.server:237361 Steen Persson wrote: > Hi Frank > > I think I'm still missing some client components. I have to admit that I > know next to nothing about Oracle and their terms, but as I understand, I > need to install an Oracle Client on my MS SQL Server and then add a > 'SQL*Net alias for Oracle database'. By installing the files you directed me > to, it only seems to install an ODBC driver and that's it. Actually I could > only install from the ODBC downloaded files - the 33 Mb file didn't contain > any file(s) that could be executed (..or maybe I'm missing something). > I'm sorry if I sound dumb, but I'm really confused about what files to get - > and where to get them from. > > /Steen > My bad - I assumed you would need/use an ODBC driver... If you want the SQL*Net network stack (the SQL*Net alias stuff comes with that), you would need the full package. But then what? SQL Server supports SQL*Net now? (BTW, tried to configure the Instant Client ODBC, no dice...) -- Regards, Frank van Bortel