[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I am trying to use Python to do queries on a Oracle database using a > Solaris box. I have seen tools such as cx_Oracle which would be good > except that my Solaris box does not have an Oracle installation. Do I > need to have an Oracle installation on my Solaris box to access the > Oracle database (which is on another machine)? Are there ways to access > an Oracle database and do queries without having a local copy of Oracle > installed? Thanks. > Not really. You need an Oracle client to talk to an Oracle database. But you don't need a full db installation... Try the instant client:
http://www.oracle.com/technology/tech/oci/instantclient/instantclient.html Recent versions of cx_Oracle build with that just fine. > -- > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list > -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
