>>Carol, if you use the installation that you download it will read your system and will install the correct thing you or your customers need.
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>>- Ricardo
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>If all else fails, use Oracle's own ODBC driver instead - I think it comes on Oracle's SQL*Net client installation CD, for each of Oracle 7 and 8.
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>You should be able to find the client CD as part of the Oracle Server software set.
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It does come on the client CD. Has Oracle improved their drivers? I have not used them since version 7 because I (and others) had many problems with their drivers. For one, if you had to join 2 tables using more than 1 key (join), the drivers returned an error.