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Posted by David Gray on 08/03/06 13:10
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>Hello all,
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>Windows Server 2003 (Enterprise)
>AMD64 (Opeteron)
>SQL 2005
>Oracle 9i
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>Please help. We are running SQL Server 2005 64bit on an Windows 2003
>Server Machine using AMD Opteron Processors. We are trying to setup
>linked servers to some Oracle 9i Databases on 32bit servers. We need
>to install ODBC/OLEDB providers for Oracle to achieve this. we are
>having difficulty finding out a few things :
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>i. How to install Microsoft OLEDB for Oracle - we have MDAC 2.8
>installed, but still there is no provider. The question is what is the
>correct OLEDB provider and how do we get it and is there such a thing
>as 64bit MDAC ?
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>ii. All literature suggests that 64bit version of these products are
>only available on Itanium 2 or higher processors. Is there any way to
>utilise these technologies on 64 bit Opteron.
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>Your help would be much appreciated as we are at our wits end for what
>is turning out to be quite an expensive project (we are hiring the
>64bit server).
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>We currently have Linked servers configured on Win2003 (32bit) server
>and SQL 2000. These use "Microsoft OLEDB Provider for Oracle". Is
>this provider available for AMD64 architecture and if so where can we
>get it?
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>Thanks in advance.
>Dave
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