Re: How does SQR on Windows accommodate different versions of Oracle?

[Ray Ontko <rayo@ONTKO.COM>]

Dave,

> I notice that SQR 6.1.3 will work fine when the Windows (2k) machine on
> which it is running has either Oracle 8 or Oracle 8i installed.
>
> These are very different sets of software, and with my own applications,
> which use the Oracle Precompiler, I had to recompile and link with the two
> different versions of the precompiler to get my app to work with 8i.
>
> It occurs to me that perhaps 8i is backward compatible -- I didn't try that
> as I only have one client machine -- but does anyone know how this works?

I'm not sure, exactly, but SQR uses an earlier interface to
the oracle kernel than the one used by the pre-compilers.
I think it's called the OCI (Oracle Call Interface).  It may
be that this interface doesn't require a re-link.

Ray
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