>>>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.


My experience with the use of Oracle ODBC drivers is limited to using VFP interactively to look at Oracle's system files etc (beats SQL Plus!!) and to extract the odd Oracle tables with simple joins to have a quick look at the data (as part of a re-modelling project).

Oracle's drivers were used because we were also using Crystal Reports and Brio Query to code the client-side reports - no problems with the Oracle drivers there either.

Tau