Oracle ODBC Client and Driver Installation (Readme.

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This file contains installation instructions for installing the

Oracle ODBC Driver software.

It is divided into four parts:

o Part I: Summary of systems supported by Oracle ODBC client

software

Lists the platforms on which the Oracle ODBC Client software can
be installed.

o Part II: Oracle ODBC Driver software.

Describes the files, and installation prerequisites for the Oracle

ODBC driver software.

o Part III: Exploding the kit onto your system

Describes how to explode the kit onto your system hard drive.

o Part IV: Installation Instructions

Describes how to apply the patch.

o Part V: Software Problems Fixed

Lists the brief description about bugs fixed.

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Part I: Systems supported by the Oracle client software
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You can install the ODBC client software on any of the following systems:

o Windows XP
o Windows Server 2003
o Windows 2000
o Windows NT X86
o Windows 98

The Oracle ODBC Driver provides support for ODBC connections

from Windows XP, Windows 2000, Windows NT, and Windows 98 systems to
Oracle databases.

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o Part II: Oracle ODBC Driver software.
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Refer to the following files for information about the Oracle ODBC Driver:

ODBCRelnotesUS.htm - The release notes for the Oracle ODBC Driver

which contains information which may have not been
included in the Help file.
 Installation Prerequisites

See the Oracle ODBC Driver release notes (ODBCRelnotesUS.htm),

for a complete list of software products required and their versions.

Disk Space Required

The Oracle ODBC driver installation requires approximately 2

megabytes of available storage space.

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Part III: Exploding the Kit onto your system
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Expand the self-extracting archive file onto your hard drive.

C:\> ORA10203.EXE

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Part IV: Installation Instructions
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This section assumes the following:

1. Oracle 10.2.0.0.0 client has already been installed on your system,

and necessary 10.2.0.3.0 patch has been applied.

2. Part III has been completed.

Installation Instructions

Once the self-extracting archive file ORA10203.EXE has been

exploded it will create an directory structure as shown below on
your hard drive.

The directory structure after unzipping and where the files to be

copied are shown below:

1. a. ORA10203\bin\sqora32.dll ---> <ORACLE_HOME>\bin

b. ORA10203\bin\sqoras32.dll ---> <ORACLE_HOME>\bin
c. ORA10203\bin\sqresus.dll ---> <ORACLE_HOME>\bin

2. a. ORA10203\ODBC\html\ODBCRelnotesUS.htm ---> <ORACLE_HOME>\ODBC\html\

b. ORA10203\ODBC\readme.txt ---> <ORACLE_HOME>\ODBC\html\

3. ORA10203\ODBC\mesg\oraodbus.msb ---> <ORACLE_HOME>\ODBC\mesg\

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Part V: Software Problems Fixed
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Version 10.2.0.3.0
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o ODBC driver used to truncate CLOB data in case of UNICODE characterset

of client. (Bug5220440).

o ODBC driver use to report ora-1008, when MFC application requeries

 the database. (Bug5147229).

o ODBC catalogue function use to take more time to complete. (Bug4150034).

o ODBC driver used to report error on executing stored procedure containing

REF CURSOR parameters. (Bug4622561).

o ODBC driver used to truncate the data retrieved with

SQLFetchScroll() call. (Bug4735799).

o ODBC driver used to report error "Input string too long, limit 4096"
when the long string contains CRLF code in the starting. (Bug4371966).

o ODBC Driver used to take more time for select statements that utlizes
bind variables. (Bug4608183).

o ODBC driver use to report crash on Executing stored procedure having large
number of parameters. (Bug4727495).

o ODBC driver used to report ORA-1406 when selecting calculated number with
large
precision from view. (Bug4546618).

o ODBC Driver use to report crash on inserting NULL data using bind offsets.
(Bug4694220)

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