[NTLUG:Discuss] OT - ODBC question

[Fred James]

Jack Snodgrass wrote:

>On Fri, 21 Mar 2003 09:27:46 -0600, Fred James wrote:
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>>Sorry - not getting much help from the official channels - can anyone 
>>point me toward documentation, books, whatever on ODBC, please? 
>> Specifically with reference to Oracle 8.0.4.
>>Thanks in advance for any advice you may offer.
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>I've seen one or two $5 books on ODBC at the 75% off book store. Been 
>a while since I've seen them there, but it's not something that I really
>look for so I may just filter them out. 
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>What are you looking to do exactly? ODBC is an API to database. 
>The Language that you use to access the database via ODBC is 
>really more important than ODBC itself. 
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>Are you looking to use a linux client and linux sql server or 
>windows for one or the other or what exactly? I've done quite 
>a bit of client / server programming using mysql, ms-sql, oracle
>and Visual Basic, perl, php, rexx, etc. If you tell me what 
>your trying to do exactly, I might be able to help explain it 
>a bit more. 
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>jack
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Unfortunately I don't have a lot of detail - just looking to get up to speed a bit.  We have an upcoming project to do some "ODBC" work between our Oracle 8.0.4 database (IRIX 6.4) and the database of our shipping vendor (UPS - other details unknown as yet).  They (UPS) said "they want to use oracle supplied drivers as opposed to MS generic ones as they have had trouble with them in the past. "  I am new to ODBC and am just trying to find out what they are talking about, and maybe be a little prepared.

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