How to connect to Oracle 9i via Instant Client from Oracle

  • I have a SQL 2008 64 bit and I need to connect to Oracle 9i to read data via SSIS 2008.

    I have already downloaded Instant Client Basic and ODBC packages from Oracle Instant Client site to my server.

    What are the next steps I have to set up to connect to Oracle? Thanks for your help.

  • bechihai (8/16/2010)


    I have a SQL 2008 64 bit and I need to connect to Oracle 9i to read data via SSIS 2008.

    I have already downloaded Instant Client Basic and ODBC packages from Oracle Instant Client site to my server.

    What are the next steps I have to set up to connect to Oracle? Thanks for your help.

    I have always used Oracle's full client but since Ora10g is able to talk to Ora9i 10g instant client should work.

    For details please check here... http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Distributed+Queries/oracleandsqlserverinteroperabilitypart3/2218/

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    Pablo (Paul) Berzukov

    Author of Understanding Database Administration available at Amazon and other bookstores.

    Disclaimer: Advice is provided to the best of my knowledge but no implicit or explicit warranties are provided. Since the advisor explicitly encourages testing any and all suggestions on a test non-production environment advisor should not held liable or responsible for any actions taken based on the given advice.
  • Thanks for your help. Today I actually downloaded the Oracle 11g Release 2 for Windows 64 bit then run the setup.exe to install the client on my server. After that I configured the TNSnames.ORA via Oracle Client Net Manager and I was able to read data from Oracle with SQL server SSIS 2008.

  • bechihai (8/17/2010)


    Thanks for your help. Today I actually downloaded the Oracle 11g Release 2 for Windows 64 bit then run the setup.exe to install the client on my server. After that I configured the TNSnames.ORA via Oracle Client Net Manager and I was able to read data from Oracle with SQL server SSIS 2008.

    Good job! Nothing beats the full client.

    _____________________________________
    Pablo (Paul) Berzukov

    Author of Understanding Database Administration available at Amazon and other bookstores.

    Disclaimer: Advice is provided to the best of my knowledge but no implicit or explicit warranties are provided. Since the advisor explicitly encourages testing any and all suggestions on a test non-production environment advisor should not held liable or responsible for any actions taken based on the given advice.

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