[egenix-users] How to connect to a remote oracle/sybase?

[Charlie Clark]

On 2004-05-25 at 11:20:29 [+0200], Tim Terlegård <tim at se.linux.org> wrote:
> > > I then thought I should get a sybase subpackage, but the website says
> > > it's only for unix and I use Windows.
> >
> > This is correct but applies to "native" drivers such as DCOracle2 or a
> > Python Sybase driver.
> 
> Uhm, what do you mean? Does eGenix have a sybase python module I can use
> on Windows?

No, but mxODBC can talk to pretty much any database which has an ODBC 
driver. Please read up on what ODBC is.
 
> > Please provide more details about which DB is on which computer and which
> > computer needs to connect.
> 
> There are several servers each running several databases, both Sybase
> and Oracle. I'd like to connect to them from my workstation and run
> SQL queries. It's an ordinary TCP/IP network.

What platforms? It's usually quite easy to use mxODBC from Windows.

Charlie
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