Software Applications
Overview
The current Oracle 10g client is used to be required on client computers running the Sungard BSR Advance C/S client/server database system, because it communicates with an Oracle database. The 10g client installation is described in the Advance general article and the restricted article. However, with a new version of Advance , Advance Events, and SmartCall expected in 2011, we expect Web (AWA), an Oracle client is no longer needed. For the companion program SmartCall, a new version of Oracle, version 11g, is required. And version 11g offers an alternative to the big, awkward Oracle Universal Installer (oui.exe) we had to use with 10g. The alternative is what Oracle calls an "instantclient"; its installation is so simple that I'll document it here.
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