From: "Ray Porter" Newsgroups: comp.databases.oracle.tools References: <4278d432$1_3@news.unc.edu> Subject: Re: packaging Oracle client installation Date: Thu, 5 May 2005 09:45:26 -0400 Lines: 46 X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1437 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1441 NNTP-Posting-Host: 152.23.168.40 Message-ID: <427a237c$1_1@news.unc.edu> X-Trace: news.unc.edu 1115300732 152.23.168.40 (5 May 2005 09:45:32 -0400) X-Authenticated-User: dragon Organization: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Path: dp-news.maxwell.syr.edu!spool.maxwell.syr.edu!drn.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!elk.ncren.net!news.unc.edu!not-for-mail Xref: dp-news.maxwell.syr.edu comp.databases.oracle.tools:68289 Hi Andy, I've taken a quick look and it looks like this is just for 10g. We're still on 9i though we will move to 10g at some point in the next few months. I also don't think it deploys the OLEDB driver for Oracle and we need that more than the ODBC drivers. Ray "Andy Hassall" wrote in message news:b3fi71hceu34a0he72dapnhsmo71f6i3f7@4ax.com... > On Wed, 4 May 2005 09:54:58 -0400, "Ray Porter" wrote: > > >Is it possible to package the necessary files, etc., so the Oracle Windows > >client components (ODBC, OLEDB) can be installed without the Universal > >Installer, by a client install application (for example, InstallShield or > >something home grown)? Is it also possible to deploy this packaged > >installation via the web? If so, does anyone have any guidelines or > >references to documentation on how to get started with this? > > Instant Client's probably your best bet here, see: > > http://www.oracle.com/technology/tech/oci/instantclient/instantclient.html > > The ODBC supplement has batch files for doing the setup - if it's like the OCI > stuff, there's no sign of Universal Installer. > > It's a lot smaller than a normal client install but it's still not exactly > lightweight - you're looking at 32MB. > > I haven't used the ODBC parts of Instant Client - just the OCI ones, and the > JDBC Thin driver (which is particularly convenient as it's very small, and can > be easily deployed over Java Web Start along with a Java application). > > -- > Andy Hassall / / > Space: disk usage analysis tool