Re: oracle client on PC's

What is a 'wire-protocol' ODBC driver?

Jared

On Tue, 2004-01-06 at 11:54, Justin Cave wrote:
> At 11:39 AM 1/6/2004, Jeffrey Beckstrom wrote:
> >Rather than installing the Oracle client on every client PC, we have been:
> >- installing client on 1 PC
> >- copying directory to a network server
> >- extract the registry for "oracle" key
> >- fix registry that was extracted to reference the network drive
> >- load registry on client PCs
> >- add the network pc as a search drive to the client pc.
> >
> >We are now experiencing problems over the WAN and looking at ways to
> >eliminate the Oracle dll overhead. Short of installing Oracle on every
> >client PC, what are our options?
>
> There is a reason that Oracle doesn't support configurations like
> this. There is a fair amount of "chatter" between an application and the
> Oracle client DLL's. When this chatter starts flying over the network
> rather than merely going to a local DLL, you start to get performance problems.
>
> How are your application(s) designed? It's probably possible to tweak an
> OCI application to make fewer OCI calls. If you're using ODBC, and have
> the budget, you could purchase one of the wire-protocol ODBC drivers.
>
> Justin Cave
> Distributed Database Consulting
>
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