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oracle 7 & 8 client on a PC at the same time - is it possible? 1
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It is possible to have two different Oracle clients installed - they just need to be installed into different Oracle homes. However, it is not really possible to use them both simultaneously, because to select one or the other you have to switch oracle homes (Using the Oracle Home Selector). I am talking from experience where my client machine is Wintel - Perhaps Unix is different???
Perhaps you don't really need two versions of the client. For instance I use an oracle 8.0.4 client to connect to serveral different databases, ranging from 7.3 to 8.1.7. The reason I use 8.0.4 is that one of the client applications I use (written inhouse) was written in a version of PowerBuilder that doesn't support any later version than that - but I can still connect to an 8.1 database.
Perhaps you don't really need two versions of the client. For instance I use an oracle 8.0.4 client to connect to serveral different databases, ranging from 7.3 to 8.1.7. The reason I use 8.0.4 is that one of the client applications I use (written inhouse) was written in a version of PowerBuilder that doesn't support any later version than that - but I can still connect to an 8.1 database.
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