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Guide to Generic Connectivity

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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).

  1. It enables you to connect to any ODBC datasource for which you have a driver and
  2. It is free. The full featured products cost $15k per computer (US list price).   

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Written by Niall Litchfield

July 26th, 2004 at 8:23 am