Do I Still Need To Install Oracle Client if Using Microsoft ODBC for Oracle to connect to an Oracle Database?

Question

Using ActiveX Data Objects 2.8 Library as a Reference from Excel VBA, and the connection string is:

\"Driver={Microsoft ODBC for Oracle}.......\"

And I also

Answer 1

You will need the Oracle client. I had tried this out yesterday, on trying to connect ODBC driver yells back at me, "Oracle client is not installed".