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When I said, do I have to own a copy of Oracle I meant in the sense that I can program for Access in VB5 and ADO without owning MS Access. My impression is that Oracle is a very expensive DB. From experience of many years ago Oracle was a pig to use. Hopefully things have changed. <br />

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When I said, do I have to own a copy of Oracle I meant in the sense that I can program for Access in VB5 and ADO without owning MS Access. My impression is that Oracle is a very expensive DB. From experience of many years ago Oracle was a pig to use. Hopefully things have changed.


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Sorry to say, but you can't treat Oracle like you would Access. <br />
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You are right, Oracle is expensive and can be difficult to administrate and tune. &nbsp;I have not used the NT product as yet, perhaps it is a little more friendly.<br />
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To get a feel ADO programming, you can use Access as an ADO/ODBC provider. &nbsp;It is terribly inefficient, but it gives you the concepts without the expense...<br />

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Sorry to say, but you can't treat Oracle like you would Access.

You are right, Oracle is expensive and can be difficult to administrate and tune.  I have not used the NT product as yet, perhaps it is a little more friendly.

To get a feel ADO programming, you can use Access as an ADO/ODBC provider.  It is terribly inefficient, but it gives you the concepts without the expense...


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I have been speculatively asked to write a frontend that will access a mega-large Oracle database. At first it will be read only and a small table may/will be split off for local use, but I think a dial-up connection will eventually be required. I want to use VB5 and ADO. My question/s are; <br />
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1.Where can I get a small Oracle db to use locally for testing to come up to speed.<br />
2. Do I have to own a copy of Oracle?<br />
2. Is it difficult to use ?, I am very familiar with Access/VB5 &nbsp;and some ADO etc ?<br />
3. Any good sources of information of how to do this
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I have been speculatively asked to write a frontend that will access a mega-large Oracle database. At first it will be read only and a small table may/will be split off for local use, but I think a dial-up connection will eventually be required. I want to use VB5 and ADO. My question/s are; 

1.Where can I get a small Oracle db to use locally for testing to come up to speed.
2. Do I have to own a copy of Oracle?
2. Is it difficult to use ?, I am very familiar with Access/VB5  and some ADO etc ?
3. Any good sources of information of how to do this

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