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Subject: Re: accessing an oracle 7.3 server with linux box?
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joeblow <dadude@casselout.dk> wrote in
news:pan.2005.03.02.18.27.04.31363@casselout.dk: 

>  We have an oracle 7.3 database that has historical data on it.  It
>  will stay a 7.3 database until it's decommissioned, probably well
>  after I'm gone, if then.
> 
> What's the easiest/quickest way to access that database with a client
> on a linux box?
> 
>  What I'm actually trying to test is just sqlnet connectivity and
>  access (this has several purposes, none relevant to this discussion),
>  but I think if I can get connectivity with my linux box here, it will
>  be very useful in the future.  Near future.
> 
> From googling, the easiest and quickest is to install the sqlplus
> clients on win4lin, but I'd really prefer a native solution.  Is there
> one that's easy and quick?
> 
> Thanks in advance.
> 

V7.3 will NOT interoperate with V9.2.
You can install a V9.0 client & then "talk" to both V7.3 and
V9.2 or 10g DB.