Huh? I disagree. I think you may be engineering a hack fix to the problem. Why try to connect to Oracle without the Oracle drivers, and why look for a non-Oracle product to solve the problem. If this can be done with existing Microsoft products alone, then fine. But, it makes no sense to go looking for a non-Oracle product to simulate functionality Oracle provides. If someone is architecting that solution, they are not doing a 'responsible' job, at least w.r.t. the excuse of 'protecting' a client workstation from loading Oracle software. I think there would have to be another 'good' reason to justify using the datadirect product in your situation. :-) HTH Regards, Mike Thomas On Wed, 24 Nov 2004 08:54:57 -0500, Thomas Day <tday6@xxxxxxx> wrote: > > > http://www.datadirect.com/techres/odbcproddoc/index.ssp > > That appears to be what I'm looking for. > > Thanks -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l