Re: Informix and Oracle

Posted in 1995

Scott Ellard — Tue, 14 Feb 1995 00:29:55 GMT — source: Informix-list mailing list archive (1991-1998)

In article <3hoq39$n7j$1@mhadg.production.compuserve.com> Paul Borrett <100322.2716@CompuServe.COM> writes: >Does anyone have any experience of linking live Informix Online >and Oracle (v7?) databases ? We will soon have to integrate our >Online system with a supplier Oracle system and would kind of >like to have one large database (with synonyms, or course!). Is >this possible, and if so what products do I require ? Oracle has recently released a gateway product which somewhat addresses this problem. Basically, tables in foreign databases appear as regular tables in Oracle. I have seen it operate, so it is real. As I understand it Informix, Sybase and Ingres are currently supported.