>> ...snip ... 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.
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>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).
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>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.
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Then I think you will not have any problems with the Oracle drivers. Someday I might give the newer Oracle drivers another try, but the ones from MS have not given me any problems nor any reason the change so far. Good luck.