Re: VB connection to Oracle

"John (jif) Graham" <jgraham_at_mround.bt.co.uk> writes:
> What drivers would I need to connect a Visual Basic application to a
> remote Oracle 7 database?
>
> The VB application would be running on a PC LAN using either Novell or
> TCP/IP (or another) and the Oracle DB would be running on UNIX using
> TCP/IP.
>
>
> If there is an intermediate NT Server box between the two is there some
> sort of SQL proxy server that could be used to route the PC SQL requests
> to UNIX and back?? (I get a bit confused at this point)
>
> Any help on drivers, suppliers, config etc gratefully received.
>
>
>
> Thanks,
> John Graham <jgraham_at_mround.bt.co.uk>
>
> Disclaimer : Any opions are may own etc ..
I have just done the same thing. Coded application for ACCESS databases, and converted to ORACLE 7.

I used Intersolves' ODBC drivers, Datadirect ODBC drivers.

Only changed to database open statement to link to Oracle, other code was fine. Received on Tue Apr 30 1996 - 00:00:00 CEST