A few years ago, I used an ODBC driver from DataDirect on multiple UNIX platforms. At the time, it may have been OEM'ed through Merant, but I don't know if that relationship is still in effect. Performance was fine (for an ETL application working on megabytes, not gigabytes, of data) and installation was uneventful. =20 Leslie =20 -----Original Message----- From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Mike Hennesy Sent: Monday, April 18, 2005 10:09 AM To: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Accessing sql server tables from an Oracle instance I was wondering if anyone has had this issue forced upon them.=20 An Oracle 9206 instance running on Solaris 8 accessing sql server 2000 tables (between 5-15).=20 What's the best way to accomplish this? I know of Oracle's Heterogeneous services but that requires ODBC and I'm not aware of any Solaris ODBC drivers. Has anyone used any third party ODBC drivers for Solaris (pros/cons/how weel did they work)?=20 Is there any other method to accomplish this?=20 I'm considering installing a small oracle instance (with heterogeneous services) on the sqlserver machine to act as a pass through to the sql server tables. All thoughts any opinions welcomed. Thanks - Mike =09 =09 __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!?=20 Yahoo! Mail - You care about security. So do we.=20 http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l