Re: newbie:client-server linux-windows

In article <Pine.OSF.4.03.9902021213110.4950-100000_at_ruunat.phys.uu.nl>,   Haaino Beljaars <beljaars_at_phys.uu.nl> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am a newbie with databases. So I need some big time help. What I want is
> the following:
> 1) I have SQL server 7.0 running on a windows NT server machine and I want
> to keep it that
> way.
>
> 2) I have an oracle server running on a linux machine, this must become
> the client of the
> windows machine.
>
> 3) I want to acces the database from my web page, an apache server. With
> the of ...? Please
> don't tell me perl? Or are there some default scripts I can use?
>
> I have no clue of to get this done, so I am searching for a step by step
> plan. Where can
> I find this on the web? Or a good book?
>
> Please help me!!!!
>
> ps. please answer my mail direct and not post it in the newsgroups.
>

Well, I'm not going to respond by private email because that pretty much defeats the purpose of a public newsgroup. Geeze this aggravates me. You come to a public forum asking for special 1 on 1 service. Email me and we'll discuss my consulting rate.

I'm not sure what you are trying to do. You say you want the Oracle/Linux box to be a client of the NT/SqlServer box. To what end? Are you trying to get data from Sql Server into Oracle? Is your web server running on the Linux box or the NT box, and is it trying to access the Oracle DB or the Sql Server DB?

If you are trying to provide a web access to the Oracle database, you will need one of Oracle's webserver products like Applications Server (OAS). The OAS provides native SQL access to the Oracle database through a Web Request Broker.

I don't know about providing web access to the SQL Server DB, tho.

As far as books go, Oracle Unleashed, 2nd Edition by Sams Publishing is good. It's updated for Oracle8 and includes all the yummy web stuff.

-Dave
 DB Development Consultant
 http://www.dpulaski.net

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