[NTLUG:Discuss] OT - ODBC question

[Fred James]

Jack Snodgrass wrote:

>On Fri, 21 Mar 2003 16:35:16 -0600, Merlin wrote:
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>>What UPS is referring to is simple.  When you install MDAC (Microsoft Data 
>>Access Components) on a machine, it comes with some Microsoft written ODBC 
>>drivers to connect to a variety of different databases, including Oracle.
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>>If you have a license to the Oracle client, and install it on a machine, then 
>>you will also have Oracle ODBC drivers installed.  Obviously, these drivers are 
>>written by Oracle.
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>One question I had... the client is on a IRIX 6.4 system... isn't that 
>a Unix ( unix-like ) system. Does Microsoft have ODBC drivers for that? 
>Just curious. I assumed that the MS ODBC stuff was for windows
>platforms.... this part of the question confused me. 
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Our clients are Win-whatever running Oracle Smart Client 10.7 P16.1 - 
the IRIX6.4 stuff is our server.
I don't know what UPS is running database/server/client wise - it kind 
of sounds like they may be wanting their server to talk to ours, but I 
may have that wrong.
Again it is too early for details - they don't seem to be forthcoming 
just yet - I am just trying to get a generalized grip on it as quickly 
as possible.

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