Mostly OT: Accessing a remote Oracle database

Bruce Dawson jbd at codemeta.com
Wed May 14 19:18:02 EDT 2003


> I would just download Oracle JDeveloper which should have both the
> client libraries (Oracle Net) and the JDBC drivers depending on how you
> want to access things. While it is large, it is not quite as large as
> the database itself.
>...

Thanks for your especially quick response Rich. I'll try the JDeveloper
stuff (even that's large, hopefully it will leave me some space left on my
harddrive - I only have 600MB free on this system).

> If you don't need to have something that is specifically for Oracle then
> the theory is that you should be able to use any JDBC/ODBC client.
>...

I tried the ODBC mechanism, but I can't get it to connect to the Oracle
server (it appears I still need an Oracle-based ODBC driver on my client).
Hopefully I'll have better luck with JDBC. I wish I knew more about what
is going on behind the scenes here - I *thought* ODBC was an API that was
supposed to be DB independent. Oh well, so much for thinking... ;-)





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