I decided to give Altova's new "DataBase Spy" a test drive; but during
installation the application found only the Ms ODBC dricver for ORacle.
I chose "OK, use that one" and then got an error message about how
necessary Oracle client side component's werent there.
Curious, because I have Oracle Instant CLient installed.
I'm a bit fuzzy on the Instant client installation....do we need to set
an Oracle Home? Or put something on the execution path?
Sql*Dev by contrast has no problem and fires right up, as did a few
other third party products.
I dont know whether this really has anything to do with ALtova, or is a
more of a question of Microsoft ODBC drivers hot playing well with
Oracle or what.
Shouldnt I be dowloading Oracles ODBC drivers instead? And if I DO, do
I need to set any system magic (windows XP) to make the environemnt
aware that I've got the Oracle ODBC stuff in there?
Too many moving parts MOzart!
