Re: ORACLE's ODBC vs. Other ODBC Vendors
Date: 1997/04/15
Message-ID: <3353af8d.1387545_at_firewall>#1/1
Check out Simba's Oracle ODBC driver. http://www.simbatech.com
Randy
Simba Technologies
[Quoted] On 10 Apr 1997 17:50:24 GMT, "Steve McDaniels" <steve.mcdaniels_at_sierra.com> wrote:
The Oracle drivers (2.00.03xx and 1.16xxxx) do not work correctly with
left
outer joins. We have constructed simple (2 table queries) where the
results are incorrect.
The Intersolve 3.0 driver performs this simple query correctly. The
Visigenic driver is too expensive, the folks there are very difficult
to
work with - I don't recommend Visigenic.
Greg Smith <gsmith_at_bdmtech.com> wrote in article
<334AC29D.52B4728C_at_bdmtech.com>...
> Jeff Ebert wrote:
> >
> > All I can say is that the Oracle Drivers released by Oracle are only
> > ODBC Conformance Level 1 drivers. It's not a question of speed,
> > but functionality. I tried to use the Oracle7 ODBC drivers with on an
> > Oracle 7.3 database with Microsoft Access. No dice...
> > Access checks the driver and says: Driver Not Compliant.
> > Apparently, it needs some level 2 functions to operate.
>
> I've done exactly what you tried using the ODBC drivers from Oracle. I
> installed SQLNet and ODBC from an Oracle for Workgroups (Win32) 7.3.x
> release CD and connected to an Oracle 7.3 RDBMS server via MS Accesss
> 7.0, Oracle ODBC Test, and the ODBC package for Perl-Win32.
>
> Have had no problems under Win95, but have had problems with ODBC Test
> under WinNT4.0.
>
> > We stuck with the Visigenic Drivers. They work good, are cheap,
> > and we can purchase support if we need to.
>
> However, Visigenic is also top quality.
>
> Greg
>
Randy Woo
Simba Technologies
http://www.simbatech.com
email: randyw_at_simbatech.com Received on Tue Apr 15 1997 - 00:00:00 CEST