VB6 and Oracle

Hi all
i have this problem
i need to connect, using VB6 + ADO, to an Oracle DB without installing on my machine the entire client oracle.
is it possibile?
thanks!

If you're willing to purchase a third-party ODBC driver, there are some companies that make "wire protocol" drivers that can be used without an Oracle client. DataDirect is one such company.
Oracle 10g appears to have some sort of minimal client install, but I'm not sure whether that will help you. The Windows version of 10g isn't available yet, so I'm not sure what the caveats, limitations, etc. of this are. I have heard rumors thta it will be a while (a couple of months) before the Windows version of 10g is available.
Justin
Distributed Database Consulting, Inc.
http://www.ddbcinc.com/askDDBC

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