[Info-vax] SQL Relay

[Chris Townley]

On 16/06/2021 15:04, Jan-Erik Söderholm wrote:
> Den 2021-06-16 kl. 14:58, skrev Simon Clubley:
>> On 2021-06-15, Jan-Erik Söderholm <jan-erik.soderholm at telia.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> Ah, it is a shame the way things has gone...
>>>
>>> It's not a big deal to write some code using the SQL Relay APIs,
>>> it is the need to have an additional Linux or Windows server in
>>> between that I find to be an "issue".
>>>
>>
>> $ set response/mode=good_natured
>>
>> You may end up having to learn Linux after all Jan-Erik. :-)
>>
>> Simon.
>>
> 
> Right...
> There is Linux in our TV set-top box, but I do not have to see it.
> 
> But seriously... I do not know how much there is in the "client" kit
> from Oracle today. But earlier it wasn't much more then an object library
> and some .h files for the SQL*Net APIs. Then a SQLNET.INI (or whatever
> the name was) with some host parameters for the servers...
> 
> And SQL*Net was earlier pretty version agnostic, so even old client
> kits worked OK using more modern Oracle servers.
> 
> Ah well, where did I put those retirement forms...

The Oracle client is able to go up, or down, 2 major versions. Useful 
for me when I had 8.1.7, 11G and 12 coming. I just used the 10 client 
(on Windows, VMS and Linux) and all was good.

Plenty of tools there for command line, or APIs

-- 
Chris