We had terrible experiences using ODBC on Oracle. OCI was better, but
still not swell. JDBC (despite your valid concerns) has still been a
whole lot more reliable for us... It's an Oracle thing (connection
issues)
On Apr 2, 2008, at 10:10 AM, John McGowan wrote:
Is anybody out there using this combination...
Witango 5.5 on Linux
unixODBC
(some ODBC driver for Oracle)
Oracle
Most of our stuff uses mySQL, but for one site, we're connecting to
the clients system for a few queries. That system is Oracle based.
Currently we're using JDBC drivers provided by oracle. But I want
to switch to ODBC. Witango's JDBC code is not as robust as it's
ODBC code, for example, if a db connection is severed, by the server
for some reason, witango's ODBC pool will realize that, and drop the
connection and create a new one if needed. On the JDBC side, it
will continue to try to use that connection, causing errors. This
goes on untill you do a Witango restart.
Anyway, since I do very little with Oracle, not that familiar with
the tools provided by oracle, or 3rd party tools that i might need.
I get the impression wading through oracle's site, that they don't
have an ODBC driver for Linux, (windows only) and I've found two
vendors for ODBC Oracle Linux drivers from easysoft.com and
datadirect.com
I'm trying to get the eval version of the datadirect driver working
right now, and I'm getting a vague connection error, so I figured it
wouldn't hurt to ask if anybody out there has a combination similar
to this working.
The bigger thing going on is that I want to encrypt the DB
connection, because currently we're going through a VPN, but I'd
like to drop the VPN from the equation and go with a simpler SSL or
SSH tunnel type setup. I just figured switching to ODBC at the same
time would be a good thing to do at the same time (due to the
problems i mentioned above)
/John
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