Re: Light Oracle 9i Client install

[sybrandb]

"DBDriver" <Gt*****@iig2.com.auwrote in message news:<fl*******************@news-server.bigpond.net.au>...

Is there any way to install the W2K 9i client to be registered locally but
actually run the programs from a common file server?

Situation: We have a client with limited client disk resources which require
OLEDB to be loaded on each workstation. This in turn requires the Oracle
Client layer which is quite heavy and time consuming across a large site. Is
there a "thin" OLEDB option available to service this environment?

Thanks in advance,

R.

I don't think there is. Also Oracle doesn't support network installs.
And disk is cheap, even in Australia ;-)

Sybrand Bakker
Senior Oracle DBA

[Frank]

DBDriver wrote:

Thanks.

Disks aren't expensive in single lots but multiply it out by # of
workstations and IS support time to add the disk and then load the Oracle
Client on each PC and it starts to look more expensive. Past experience with
scalability shows that lots of insignificant costs and "creative" time
charging can add big bucks to a project.

The site previously did this type of install with the Oracle ODBC driver so
now have an expectation to duplicate this functionality with the OLEDB
driver. The question was more a speculator just in case someone has been
down the path and cracked some solution.

R.
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>>"DBDriver" <Gt*****@iig2.com.auwrote in message

news:<fl*******************@news-server.bigpond.net.au>...

>>>Is there any way to install the W2K 9i client to be registered locally

but

>>>actually run the programs from a common file server?

Situation: We have a client with limited client disk resources which

require

>>>OLEDB to be loaded on each workstation. This in turn requires the Oracle
Client layer which is quite heavy and time consuming across a large

site. Is

>>>there a "thin" OLEDB option available to service this environment?

Thanks in advance,

R.

I don't think there is. Also Oracle doesn't support network installs.
And disk is cheap, even in Australia ;-)

Sybrand Bakker
Senior Oracle DBA

Unsupported installations work sometimes. In fact, a lot of times.
There's nothing against the installation on a mapped disk, but
it is indeed not supported.
There are tools that will take a snapshot of the state of a machine,
after which you install, and take a second snapshot.
Subtract snapshot 1 from 2, and the tool will know the files added,
modified, environment variables, etc, etc. Put these into one package,
and roll out - even on demand (you need this driver - hmmm, got this
install for you.)

If you have to do it by hand, beware of all the things that might
change - especially on M$ (win\system32, registry, etc)
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Regards, Frank van Bortel