7 The Oracle Driver

The DataDirect Connect64 for ODBC Oracle driver (the Oracle driver) supports the following Oracle database servers when using the appropriate client software.

Oracle 10g R1 and R2 (10.1 and 10.2)
Oracle 9i R1 and R2 (9.0.1 and 9.2)
Oracle 8i R3 (8.1.7)

The Oracle driver is supported in the Windows, UNIX, and Linux environments. See "Environment-Specific Information" for detailed information about the environments supported by this driver.

Refer to the readme file shipped with your DataDirect product for the file name of the Oracle driver.

NOTE: The Oracle driver requires Oracle client software. DataDirect also provides an Oracle driver that does not require any client software to access Oracle databases. See "The Oracle Wire Protocol Driver" for details.