问题
I am here in an environment where there is a fairly old Oracle 8 (yes, eight) database installation and I need to connect to it from a fairly new Windows 7 installation.
What kind of client do you suggest to use to accomplish this?
First I tried Oracle SQL Developer (v4.0.2.15) but according to the Oracle Community, Oracle 8 is not supported by SQL Developer anymore since v1.2. And I do indeed have problems connecting to it.
Thanks for any hints and suggestions (beside "upgrade the Oracle database!" ;-) )
Solution:
We luckily digged out an old Oracle 8i Client (version 8.1.7) and were able to connect successfully from Windows 7 (64bit) to the Oracle 8 database (version 8.0.5.0.0) using both SQL*Plus Worksheet and the ODBC driver. Hooray! Thanks Justin & TenG for the hints! Never thought that would work on a recent Windows version.
来源：https://stackoverflow.com/questions/24818999/oracle-8-what-client-to-use-to-connect-from-windows-7-pcs