Christopher, What OS is your Oracle DB on?
If on NT and your version >= 816 then you can use the heterogeneous services - for some more information see Metalink / doco: I found note 114820.1 helpful - "QUICK START GUIDE: WIN NT - Generic Connectivity using ODBC" Also note 109730.1 - How to setup generic connectivity (Heterogeneous Services) for Windows NT If your Oracle is on Unix then you could also use Heterogeneous services, provided you can get a SQL Server ODBC driver for Unix. Regards, Bruce Reardon -----Original Message----- Sent: Wednesday, 3 October 2001 7:25 I was thinking that same thing as the easiest way as I know transparent isn't cheap and there probably isn't an easy way. I was going to use Perl/Java to make something if there isn't any other way like the OPENQUERY option in SQL Server to look at oracle tables. Christopher R. Spence Oracle DBA Phone: (978) 322-5744 Fax: (707) 885-2275 Fuelspot 73 Princeton Street North, Chelmsford 01863 -----Original Message----- Sent: Tuesday, October 02, 2001 4:14 PM Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Oh geez, here I go again. This is trivial with Perl, DBD::Oracle and DBD::ODBC. Whether it is useful to you depends on a number of things. * can you use an Oracl copy of the SQL server data? * does the data always need to be fresh? * how fresh? * how big is it? Since it's temporary, this may work for you. Jared ----------- I know there is a way in SQL server to query oracle tables, is there a way to do the reverse? I am looking at trying to create access from an Oracle DB to SQL Server data until we convert the SQL server database. Anyone have any ideas on this, I searched technet (ms/oracle) and metalink, as well as some search engines without luck. Christopher R. Spence -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com -- Author: Reardon, Bruce (CALBBAY) INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City Network Services -- (858) 538-5051 FAX: (858) 538-5051 San Diego, California -- Public Internet access / Mailing Lists -------------------------------------------------------------------- To REMOVE yourself from this mailing list, send an E-Mail message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (note EXACT spelling of 'ListGuru') and in the message BODY, include a line containing: UNSUB ORACLE-L (or the name of mailing list you want to be removed from). You may also send the HELP command for other information (like subscribing).
