Re: Need info on missing odbc32.dll for install of Oracle 8i
Date: 6 Oct 2002 20:55:17 -0700
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> To access Oracle data, the following components are required:
>
> Should be The ODBC Driver for Oracle
> ? An Oracle RDBMS database
> Yes Oracle Client Software
Yes and No. Yes you do need Oracle database to access and do need Oracle client middleware (Sqlnet or net8) to access the database... Unless you use Java thin driver in which case you don't need Oracle Client. You need ODBC only if that is what you are going to use to access the database. ODBC sits on top of Oracle middleware...which means you need to have Oracle client installed to use ODBC to connect to Oracle database.
Not sure why you are looking for odbc32.dll? If you want to use Microsoft ODBC driver for Oracle, then it is located in %SYSTEMROOT%\System32\msorcl32.dll. If you want to use Oracle ODBC driver then it gets installed in your Oracle home as %ORACLE_HOME%\bin\SQORA32.DLL. If you cannot locate it there, then you need to install it.
Furthermore, you can launch ODBC from control panel and see which drivers are installed.
/Rauf Sarwar Received on Mon Oct 07 2002 - 05:55:17 CEST