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- From: dbenua@panix.com (David Benua)
- Newsgroups: comp.databases.oracle
- Subject: Re: VISUAL BASIC AND QELIB
- Message-ID: <C0D0yq.GBF@panix.com>
- Date: 5 Jan 93 02:44:50 GMT
- References: <524.204.uupcb@sqlware.uunet.UU.NET>
- Organization: PANIX Public Access Unix, NYC
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- In <524.204.uupcb@sqlware.uunet.UU.NET> joe.bartling@sqlware.uunet.UU.NET (Joe Bartling) writes:
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- >I have been using Visual Basic under MS-Windows and connecting to ORACLE
- >using QELib from Pioneer Software which connects to Oracle via SQL*Net.
- >The biggest problem is that I can't connect to a local DOS ORACLE
- >database (only client-server). Other than waiting for Pioneer to come
- >out supporting local an Oracle DOS database, are there any other
- >solutions given my front-end of Visual Basic? Has anyone heard of
- >Microsoft Access? Will that help?
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- MS Access uses ODBC to get the data, so you need a driver which supports
- Oracle on DOS. As far as I know the SQL*Net driver isn't out yet, so
- I expect the answer is "No, it won't help"
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- Dave B.
- dbenua@panix.com
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