Hi Experts, I am not very familiar with Oracle, but am faced with a new Windows X64 2008 Server running Terminal Services and need to install an app requiring the Oracle client. (And Crystal reports to get data from the Oracle server.) Having read the Oracle info on 32 bit ODBC on 64 bit platforms, it looks like things will be OK. We have the original Oracle 8i CD but JREW.EXE dies after the installation.

I see this is a fairly common Java runtime issue and will pursue that. My question is this: Should we download the latest (11g) client and install that instead of what came with the software (8i?) Will this have any negative implications?

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(Can it connect to a version 8 database OK?) Does it cost anything for the newer client? Any other thoughts on the matter?

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As per standard procedure we've been using for years for previous versions of both Oracle and SQL Server, I have installed Oracle's latest ODAC package, which includes the Oracle OLE driver onto our new SQL Server 2008 R2 x64 nodes. I have done the recommended system reboot, but OraOLEDB.Oracle does not show in the Linked Servers Providers node in SSMS. The only difference between this installation and previous SQL Server installations is that I am now using SQL Server x64 (on Windows 2008 R2). Should this make any difference? Note that I am able to connect to Oracle servers using SQL*Plus from the SQL Server nodes directly.

The only thing I am missing is that Provider. Anyone know what I am missing? There are many posts around the web, but there seems to be a lot of confusion and outdated links to Oracle's download page. The ONLY thing I need to be able to do is create a linked server to Oracle, and run select queries against it. I don't need to do anything through Visual Studio.

After hours of research, I managed to cobble together some working instructions for Oracle 11g R2. As it turns out, you will likely need both the 32 and 64 bit clients installed to have things working in BIDS/Visual Studio/SSMS. I may have installed more Oracle components than I needed, but here's what worked for me: • Download 32 and 64-bit clients from (click 'see all' to see different versions, otherwise, you'll be downloading the complete Oracle program.