I am trying to develop an application that connects to multiple oracle
databases.

All the applicaiton does is simple select statements.

My question is about the oracle client.

We have about 300-400 target computers to install this applicaiton on.

It seems the oracle client files add up to about 70 megs.

Which makes the install about 71 megs.

1 meg for the program and 70 for the Oracle client.

Is there an better way, a thin-client for VB maybe?

A company called DataDirect puts out a client for connecting to Oracle that is only 300kb, not 70megs. You would think Oracle would figure out how to make a thin-client for VB. But the DataDirect client costs a lot of money....which we don't have. Any Idea's?

Thanks,

-Mike

Hi
Are you looking for a intermidiate layer which could redirect your requests from PC to the DB.
I understand u r using VB on your machine, and JDBC connects to connect to the DB.
Could you write more on the same.
Thanx and Regards
Aruneesh

Hello,

Basically I am looking to create a small application that I can carry around on a floppy disk. This app needs to connect to a couple of Oracle databases. Are there any Oracle clients that VB can use to connect to an Oracle database (that have a very small footprint)?

We are not using JDBC.

Any idea's?

Or do we have to install the 70meg client on all machines.

Thanks,

-Mike