> Need to have access to data in an oracle base from visual basic. Ideally I
would just connect to
> a database and get records from an oracle table using some kind of
connection string.
>
> However - I dont' think this can be done without the oracle client
installed on the machine from
> which i'm running my script - and it won't be.
>
> What is to be done ? Can I enclosse a tnsnames - file from oracle with
application and then connect to
> oracle without the total client ?
>
> Or will I have to transfer data using dts to sql ?
>
> \Michael Vardinghus