Re: Oracle on a PC?

brent_at_spss.com (Brent Lambert) writes:
>Regarding the following scenario:
> 386 PC
> DOS 5
> MS Windows
> No network
>Is there a version of Oracle 6 which will run both a server and
>clients (Windows Pro*C) in that environment? What is the product

If you mean a DOS product which will act as the server for EXTERNAL clients, no.

>called? What is a valid connect string? How does client programming
>differ from writing a Windows, Pro*C program that will access an
>Oracle Server for OS/2 over Lan Manager?

The only difference is the "AT :connect_string" clause attached to the CONNECT clause in the EXEC SQL statement. There is a way to specify the local database so that your program doesn't have to change internally when you are internal/external databases. According to the Miaco folks who make AntWorks, they had to do some tweaking on their client/remote database version because of the way SQL*net does its parsing and binding etc.

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