Linux as Oracle client

I would like to use my Redhat Linux server as a client for the
Oracle DB installed on HP-UX.
Which package do I need ? I don't want to install a complete
Oracle DB on the Linux machine.
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Miklos Nemeth (guest) wrote:
: Your assumption sounds quite correct, but it does not work in
: practice. First SQLPlus cannot be used with remote Oracle
: databases. Second orainst does install header files and
libraries
: for OCI programming only when RDBMS installation is requested.
: Even if you need the client components you must install RDBMS
: too.
If you want to work with remote databases you have to install
SQL*Net (or Net8) on both server and client computers. Make sure
you have TNS Listener running on your server (computer where
RDBMS is running), and add dbname (Oracle SID) to tnsnames.ora
file on each computer. For more info read Oracle Server Net8
Administrator's Guide, Release 8.0
(http://technet.oracle.com/doc/network.805/a58230/toc.htm) or
some other Oracle DBA book.
SQL*Plus, as any Oracle client, works with any "TNS visible"
Oracle database regardless of location. I am running several UNIX
boxes with several RDBMS on each of them, and my configuration
lets me use a single UNIX session to do all my work.
Oleg Dvornikov
Oracle DBA and Developer
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