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What is the oracle odbc driver for linux?


Asked by Bruno Trevino on Dec 08, 2021 Linux



What Is the Oracle ODBC Driver. The Oracle ODBC Driver enables ODBC applications on Microsoft Windows, as well as UNIX platforms like Linux, Solaris, and IBM Advanced Interactive eXecutive (AIX) read and write access to Oracle® databases through the ODBC interface using Oracle Net Services software.
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To update the ODBC driver Windows users can simply download and run the installer for the most current version. The installer will replace the existing ODBC driver installation on the system with the most current version. However, it isn't always practical to replace an entire installation.
Consequently, In that case, yes ODBC could present a security risk in that it WON'T be implementing your application secrity for you. It will let them access anything their account has rights to. P.S. IIRC - I think there used to be a flaw in the ODBC administrator that would allow ODBC tracing to display the login credentials, but this has been resolved for some time.
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No, ADO is built on top of OLEDB, can use only OLEDB provider and therefore, cannot directly use an ODBC driver. However, it can indirectly use an ODBC driver because there is this special OLEDB provider called the MSDASQL which can connect to an ODBC driver.
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Instead, use the ODBC driver provided by Oracle. The Microsoft® ODBC Driver for Oracle allows you to connect your ODBC-compliant application to an Oracle database.