You also may want to be carefull which ODBC driver you use. I had trouble using the Oracle one and ended up using MicroSofts. I know that there's a company (I think it's named InterSolv) that makes ODBC drivers, and I originally wanted to use theirs because the performance was MUCH better, but the cost was too steep for my client because they had a zillion workstations. I think Mark's thing he wrote also talks about this...I would recomend reading it...I know it helped me (as did he) a lot.

>I've received a request to write a small VFP 6.0 application as a frontend under Win95/98 against data to be stored in an Oracle database on a Unix server.
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>I'v got some experience with VFP/SQL Server, but no experience with Oracle/Unix, so before I say yes or no, I'd like to know if there are any VFP/Oracle-related snags or particularities to be aware of. There is a DBA for the Oracle server, so I don't think I have to think too much about some administrative tasks like allocating disk space.
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>Initially, I was hoping that all I needed was a machine name, a database name, a user name and a password to get started, but it seems I need at least some Oracle client software (SQL*Net?) installed for the ODBC driver to work, so I'm wondering what else might turn up.
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>I'd be thankful for any hints or warnings...
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>Arne