Re: Anyone querying Oracle from a Linux box

From: Jon T. Day <jday_at_msmailgw.sdsmt.edu>
Date: Fri, 09 Oct 1998 10:58:25 -0600
Message-ID: <361E40B1.E54@msmailgw.sdsmt.edu>

George Dau wrote:

> Do I have to wait for Oracle 8 on Linux, or is there some other
> method of connection? (Perl on Linux seems to require something
> that's not there, same for Java)
>

According to the OraPerl and DBD::Oracle documentation says they requires Pro*C and probably some other things installed on the unix box. So that doesn't look to promising. To do that you need to install in on the linux box then for Perl to work. JDBC on the other hand "will work" to query from the Linux box to any Oracle database. What you need for that is the JDBC Oracle Thin driver. I have actually done this on a Linux box to an Oracle 7 database. So as for Oracle 8, it "should" work. You have to do a little digging on http://java.sun.com/ to find the driver. There might also be some ODBC support with the C language. I haven't done any ODBC programming. ODBC through perl doesn't support Oracle as far I can tell.

Jon T. Day Received on Fri Oct 09 1998 - 11:58:25 CDT