Once you get to a third third party, then you'll have a whole party or a whole database. :) joe original message below On Wed, 23 Jun 2004 09:54:11 -0400, Powell, Mark D <mark.powell@xxxxxxx> wrote: Niall, SQL Server comes with the ability to read and write to Oracle tables practically out of the box. All you need is an Oracle client installed on the SQL Server box. Any changes you make to the source of the data that needs to be transferred to Oracle is probably going to require a change to the process that transfers the data. It would probably get easiest to make these changes at the source. Thanks, the concern we have isn't the capability of linked servers/DTS - I think they are fantastic - it is one third party wanting to install their executable code on a second third party's database. hmmm second third party that didn't come out right. -- Niall Litchfield Oracle DBA http://www.niall.litchfield.dial.pipex.com ---------------------------------------------------------------- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com ---------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe send email to: oracle-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx put 'unsubscribe' in the subject line. -- Archives are at //www.freelists.org/archives/oracle-l/ FAQ is at //www.freelists.org/help/fom-serve/cache/1.html -----------------------------------------------------------------