[vox-tech] Connecting to a remote Oracle database

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Richard,

To use most (if not all) oracle clients, you need the oracle drivers 
installed on the local machine.  For instance, when I am accessing an 
oracle db using java, oracle provides jdbc drivers.  I am not sure about 
TOra, but when I was using TOAD, I had to install the oracle client ( 
sqlplus and some other oracle client software ) before TOAD would work.  
(www.toadsoft.com)

cheers
Mark

Richard Crawford wrote:

>I've got my department's Oracle 9i database running happily on Solaris 9,
>but I would like to be able to connect to it from home.  I've installed
>TOra on my desktop at home, but that appears to be inadequate.  Port 1521
>is open on our department's firewall to my home network, so I should be
>able to get in.  And I can tel-net in and run SQL*Plus from the command
>line just fine.
>
>Anyone know what I'm missing?  Is it possible to do this without
>installing all of the Oracle database software on my box?  I certainly
>have the room for it, but it's still something I'd like to avoid....
>
>
>Sláinte,
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