Well, I'm guessing here, but there should be a gateway (with a license tag attached) that allows you to do this. There is one for DB2, SQL Server, etc... I'm not too lazy to google it: http://www.pythian.com/news/1554/how-to-access-mysql-from-oracle-with-odbc-and-sql/ Keep in mind that performance would be limited by MySQL there... :-P cheers. Alan.- On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 4:31 PM, Betsy Ward <wardbe@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I saw someone just posted a question about Oracle versus MySQL, and since > I'm researching this, thought I would ask out here... > > Has anyone on this list gotten an oracle database to talk to a mysql > database before? Similar to putting a dblink in oracle from one instance to > another, can you do that with oracle > mysql? Would you be willing to share > how you did it? > > I have been digging around and found the unixODBC package, which I > installed but when trying to install the mysql-connector driver, I am > getting errors. Is there any way to get this to work outside of using the > unixODBC package? > > TIA, > Betsy > -- > //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l > > >