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Gerhard Haering wrote:
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<pre wrap="">On Tue, May 03, 2005 at 05:14:45PM -0400, <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:mike.guice@rbc.com">mike.guice@rbc.com</a> wrote:
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<pre wrap="">Is it necessary to have the Oracle Client installed in a machine that
wishes to connect to an Oracle database?
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Yes, but a minimal install will do.
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<pre wrap="">If not, what are the requisite files for making the connection?
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It's possible to strip down the Oracle installation even more, but
that's more a less a manual cycle of delete-and-see-if-it-still works.
I bothered once to do this, but wouldn't bother any more.
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With Oracle 9i I was able to take the 140MB client install and pare it
down to about 3.5MB of shared libraries that were actually needed.
Pretty much oracle client lib, TLS lib and some config files, but I
don't remember exactly.<br>
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