Re: Best way to connect MS Access 2007 to Oracle 8 database?

From: Martijn Tonies <m.tonies_at_upscene.removethis.com>
Date: Wed, 26 Dec 2007 21:01:00 +0100
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>Will using the wrong Oracle client damage the Oracle database?

A server side process should reject incoming connections if there's something wrong. Hence, the Oracle database service will reject client connections it cannot work with or that send malformed commands.

It should be safe to use the Oracle 9 client.

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Received on Wed Dec 26 2007 - 14:01:00 CST

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