Archive for July 26th, 2004
Guide to Generic Connectivity
Connecting to Non-Oracle Systems
I have also this morning uploaded a quick how to on Setting Up Generic Connectivity. This document is a step by stem guide to Oracle’s generic connectivity, which is a free – but little known, database feature for connecting to non-Oracle services. The official documentation (this is the 9i version) details some of the restrictions. Generic Connectivity has 2 advantages over Oracle’s Open System Gateway products (purchase here).
- It enables you to connect to any ODBC datasource for which you have a driver and
- It is free. The full featured products cost $15k per computer (US list price).
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Scaling Oracle.
What do you do if your magnum opus was marketed with an Oracle Version number in the title? Who for example would now buy a book with 8i in the title? This was the challenge that faced james morle of scalabilities who has written probably the definitive work on making Oracle scale effectively, and who consults extensively on scaleable solutions. James’ answer – licence the book for free – that’s correct, now one of the best researched and important books on the effective use of Oracle is available here The book is available, and will be updated, online or you can download a pdf version of the book as well.