Connect to an Oracle 10g database with Microsoft ODBC for Oracle

Question

I\'m trying to connect to an Oracle 10g database using the built in Microsoft ODBC for Oracle driver. I want to use an dnsless connection, so I grab my connection string fr

Answer 1

With 10g, you can use the EZCONNECT feature. To connect to an Oracle instance named ORCL on the server myServer, the connection string would look like this :

Driver={Microsoft ODBC for Oracle};Server=myServer:1521/ORCL;Uid=myUsername;Pwd=myPassword;