Re: I can't find a SETUP.EXE in the SQL Plus Client ??
Date: Mon, 19 Jun 2006 15:12:15 -0700
Message-ID: <1150755139.673102_at_bubbleator.drizzle.com>
D. Patrick wrote:
> "DA Morgan" <damorgan_at_psoug.org> wrote in message > news:1150747758.818897_at_bubbleator.drizzle.com...
>> D. Patrick wrote:
>>> I am not used to Oracle, sorry. I need the client tool to access someone
>>> else's server for testing some SELECT statements I'm writing for them. I
>>> went to:
>>>
>>> http://www.oracle.com/technology/tech/sql_plus/index.html
>>>
>>> and I downloaded the "SQL Plus Instant Client". I just want a free
>>> client because I don't own the Oracle license. I downloaded it, but
>>> there are just DLLs and 2 JAR files. I don't see any SETUP.EXE file to
>>> start the install. What am I missing? How do I get a free Oracle client
>>> installed, if possible, so I can test some SQL statements.
>> You do something you may be unfamiliar with since you aren't used to
>> Oracle: You READ the documentation.
>>
>> But to flesh this out a bit more ... how are you going to connect to the
>> server? The web? TCP/IP? Through a firewall? What version? Your post is
>> dangerously short of information that might affect the answer.
>>
>> Whoever owns the server you are connecting to ... BTW with Oracle you
>> don't connect to servers ... should be able to get you a copy of SQL*Plus.
>> Alternatively you might be able to use the free download of
>> SQL*Developer available at http://otn.oracle.com. Hard to tell.
>> --
>> Daniel A. Morgan
>> University of Washington
>> damorgan_at_x.washington.edu
>> (replace x with u to respond)
>> Puget Sound Oracle Users Group
>> www.psoug.org
> > > There is no documentation with that download. There is just a 2 sentence > read-me file which doesn't address anything but a bug. > > I will connect through TCP/IP through a firewall. > > I just want to install the SQL Plus client tool for executing a few SQL > statements. I can't get any software from the remote person because my > contact is not technical, and it shouldn't matter if the client tool is > available for download anyway. Can anyone help?
[Quoted] [Quoted] Based on what you've written you have absolutely no business trying to [Quoted] [Quoted] connect (I'd use the word hack or crack) into the server. If the people [Quoted] [Quoted] that paid for the Oracle license can't provide a technical person to provide you with the correct tool and the required configuration file you are in need of being referred to law enforcement officials not Oracle resources.
[Quoted] [Quoted] This may be a bit of an over-reaction to what you wrote but I take [Quoted] [Quoted] security seriously, I hope everyone does, and a non-technical person [Quoted] [Quoted] has no business authorizing you to do anything. Only a DBA should be giving you server names/IP addresses and only a DBA should give you a user-id and password.
[Quoted] [Quoted] I encourage everyone else to not help this poster unless there is some [Quoted] [Quoted] reason to believe this is anything but an attempt at a break-in.
-- Daniel A. Morgan University of Washington damorgan_at_x.washington.edu (replace x with u to respond) Puget Sound Oracle Users Group www.psoug.orgReceived on Tue Jun 20 2006 - 00:12:15 CEST