ODBC Driver
Tony, April 30, 2003 - 1:17 pm UTC
Hi Tom,
Thanks a lot for your help,
I have oracle 817 client and application running on an AIX box and database is on win2000 box(test env.) , we are getting some connection issues and Oracle is recommending to install 9.2x ODBC driver. My question is can I install 9.2 ODBC driver on my existing 8.1.7 env. if yes, do i need to do it on both database and client machines? and how can we just install ODBC driver without impacting anything else.
April 30, 2003 - 7:04 pm UTC
do you use thin? if so, it is just a jar file, you can plop it down anywhere you want and just change the classpath.
if it is thick, you need to install the 920 client software.
JDBC Driver
tony, April 30, 2003 - 1:56 pm UTC
Tom,
sorry my mistake it's not ODBC driver but JDBC that I wanted to know about
Regards
Tony
SQL*Net Version
Reader, June 06, 2003 - 6:36 pm UTC
Tom,
How do I find out SQL*Net/Net8 version info on Windoz ?
Thanks
June 06, 2003 - 8:18 pm UTC
fire up the installer.
it'll list what is on there.
Invisible, November 14, 2006 - 10:52 am UTC
It seems that this is about the best place to ask this question...
I have a 3rd party application that is currently running on an Oracle 8.1.6 database. I have another application that I'd like to install - but it wants to use Oracle 8.1.7.
As I understand it, it is possible to have more than one version of Oracle on the same server, so that isn't a problem as such... but I would really prefer to only have 1 version of Oracle to worry about.
Do you know what the difference between 8.1.6 and 8.1.7 is? Is a 3rd party application likely to "care" about such differences?
(Operative word: likely. I realise that you probably can't give me a 100% answer on this one. You haven't seen the apps after all...)
Of course, in an ideal world we would TEST all these things. Unfortunately, hardware doesn't grow on trees. That means the only thing I have that's powerful enough to run two instances of Oracle is the production server... *sigh*
November 15, 2006 - 6:37 am UTC
you must contact your 3rd party vendor and ask them what versions they will support.
Yes, there are differences between 816 and 817.
Yes, they likely would "care"
Fortunately, hardware costs less than the time you and I would spend fixing such things .
Now there's an equation...!
Invisible, November 17, 2006 - 12:22 pm UTC
Haha! Clearly you get paid DRASTICALLY more than I do...
Anyway, app1 belongs to a company that recently got bought out, and app2 belongs to a company we don't even have a contract with, so it's not as if I can ask them. (If I could, I imagine their reply would be "we haven't bothered to test that; please buy our latest product".)
That being the case, it seems the simplest thing to do would be to just run two versions...
(While we're on the topic, would I be correct in thinking that both 8.1.6 and 8.1.7 are no longer supported by Oracle? Not that we have a contract with them either...)
Anyway, thank you for your (expensive?) time.
November 20, 2006 - 2:06 am UTC
Hardware seriously does cost less these days - especially on the scale you seem to be talking (being worried about running two instances for testing, you can do that on most desktop machines these days....
you would be correct in your support assumptions.