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Hello
> What exactly is needed to connect a client application to an Oracle db?
Our
> current standard procedure is to install the Oracle client software
> (anything ranging from v7.3.3 on up to 9i). I recently travelled to a
> European site to train users on the software and their support people were
> able to achieve the connection without installing the client. I believe
that
> had a script that only installed SQL Net components. I'm interested in
> finding out the minimum required components so that I can write a silent
> installation procedure for our VB6 application that installs our app as
well
> as the components needed for the db connection. Our customers have
requested
> this since they don't want to deal with two separate installs for one
> application. Any comments or advice would be appreciated. Thanks.
It is possible that they have used a JDBC driver ? With JDBC you only nedd
two files classes12.zip and nlslang.zip
Mike Received on Fri May 10 2002 - 13:34:22 CDT
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