Oracle Client 10g vs. Instant Client 10.2 (Windows XP)

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AMM <a_m_m51 (AT) yahoo (DOT) com> wrote:

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But if the Oracle client is used to establish a connection via OCI
or JDBC or ODBC, it should work fine.

As far as I know, the application just runs queries on our
supplier's database and makes the results available in
a particular format on a TCP port. It has fairly little dancing
baloney, at least by Windows standards.

It would be helpful to know which API it uses to access Oracle.

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Maybe the program also checks for Oracle registry keys or the ORACLE_HOME
environment variable, things that you do not have in a sound Instant Client
installation.

I already set ORACLE_HOME to be the Instant Client install directory.

Normally ORACLE_HOME should *not* be set in an Instant Client
installation.

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By "windows application", I means some software that was written
to run under Windows (as opposed to, say, Linux.) Very specialpurpose,
on the order of 10 copies in existence, I would guess.

If you are willing to try hard, you could install Process Monitor
(http://download.sysinternals.com/Fil...essMonitor.zip)
and trace which files and registry keys the program tries to read
and write. There will probably be some Oracle related things that it
cannot find. From that you could guess what it is trying to do.

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It was the "vendor" that told us to install Oracle Client. They
may not even know what Instant Client is.

But they might know which API they used, or how they check if Oracle
Client is installed.

Yours,
Laurenz Albe

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Oracle Client 10g vs. Instant Client 10.2 (Windows XP)

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Re: Oracle Client 10g vs. Instant Client 10.2 (Windows XP) - 11-04-2008 , 09:42 AM