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How To Setup Heterogeneous Services To Access Oracle Rdb Database Using DG4ODBC (Doc ID 217186.1)

Last updated on MAY 11, 2022

Applies to:

Oracle Database - Enterprise Edition - Version 11.1.0.6 and later
Oracle Database Cloud Schema Service - Version N/A and later
Oracle Database Exadata Cloud Machine - Version N/A and later
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure - Database Service - Version N/A and later
Oracle Database Backup Service - Version N/A and later
Microsoft Windows (32-bit)

Purpose

This article provides a step-by-step guide for setting up generic connectivity using ODBC to access to an Oracle Rdb database.

Generic Connectivity, formerly known as Heterogeneous Services (HSODBC), has been replaced by the 11g Database Gateway for ODBC (DG4ODBC).

See the following notes for details of the install and setup:

Note.561033.1 How to Setup DG4ODBC on 64bit Unix OS (Linux, Solaris, AIX, HP-UX)
Note.466225.1 How to Setup DG4ODBC (Oracle Database Gateway for ODBC) on Windows 32bit

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