Re^4: connecting toOracle7 and Oracle9 simultaneously

The links only help those of us who have accounts on metalink, which is only available to people who know their company's support contract info with Oracle. (and I don't currently work for a company with a CSI)

I've used 9.2 client to connect to an 8.1 database, and an 8.1 client to connect to a 7.3.4? (was 7, definately... for some reason, 7.3.4 comes to mind), and I know there are settings in the server so that you can allow older versions of the client to connect, but I don't know how severe the penalty is for doing it in 9.2

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Re^5: connecting toOracle7 and Oracle9 simultaneously by gsiems (Deacon) on Jun 03, 2005 at 19:30 UTC
Hmmm... too true regarding metalink availability (of course having metalink availability doesn't mean that you can actually find what you're looking for on metalink-- or if you did find it once that you'll ever find it again). Fortunately (in this case) Google to the rescue. WRT the OP, I guess I'd try compiling DBD::Oracle against either the 8.1.7 or 7.3.4 client and then try fauria's suggestion.	[reply]

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Re^5: connecting toOracle7 and Oracle9 simultaneously
by gsiems (Deacon) on Jun 03, 2005 at 19:30 UTC

Hmmm... too true regarding metalink availability (of course having metalink availability doesn't mean that you can actually find what you're looking for on metalink-- or if you did find it once that you'll ever find it again). Fortunately (in this case) Google to the rescue.

WRT the OP, I guess I'd try compiling DBD::Oracle against either the 8.1.7 or 7.3.4 client and then try fauria's suggestion.

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