Jason Majors wrote: > > Where I work we need to use oracle 9i (I'm pushing for mySQL conversion) on > Linux boxes to communicate with oracle 8i on a Solaris box. > Our DBA tried to do the 9i install (when he looked for a "d drive" I got > scared), and keeps having problems that he won't share with the rest of us. > He talked to oracle support and they said that since debian doesn't have a > bourne shell, it won't install and that they can't help, because they only > support Redhat and SuSE. > > Has anybody here installed oracle successfully on Debian? If so can you give > me details of the special steps you had to take? > > Or if there's a better lib that will allow C++ programs on a Debian box > access an oracle server on a solaris box using Pro/C and whatever protocol > oracle uses for select/update/insert/etc. commands from C code, can > somebody give me some tips on that? > Unfortunately, I'm database illiterate, so I don't know any more about our > needs than what I said here.
I kinda like otl http://www.geocities.com/skuchin/otl/home.htm (for C++) you still need oracle libraries installed (not sure what else). I haven't used it much so I don't know how stable it is but as far as I can tell it is a *LOT* better than ProC (which is a sorry piece of excuse for a db library/preprocessor). erik -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]