On Wed, 24 Nov 2004 12:06:37 -0500, mhthomas <qnxodba@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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. I agree entirely. Most folk in this environment have no trouble installing client libraries for SQL Server ( ask them to completely remove MDAC if they protest). They just don't realize what they did. -- Niall Litchfield Oracle DBA http://www.niall.litchfield.dial.pipex.com -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l