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Overview

Progress DataDirect’s ODBC Driver for Oracle offers a high-performing, secure and reliable connectivity solution for ODBC applications to access Oracle data. Our ODBC driver can be easily used with SQL across all platforms - Unix / Linux, AIX, Solaris, Windows and HP-UX. Enjoy real-time analytics, reporting and business intelligence (BI) capabilities with your favorite tools such as Tableau, Power BI, Qlik, Excel, Cognos, Informatica, SAS, Board, MicroStrategy, SSIS, Oracle OBIEE and more.

Handle high volume and velocity easily with high performing Oracle ODBC Driver
Gain value and time from failover features that ensure data integrity and reliability
Remove dependancy on vendor client libraries and vendor clients by using our ODBC driver for Oracle

Features

SQL Up Leveling/ Full ANSI SQL Support

SQL up-leveling provides the capability to write a SQL statement that can be executed across multiple databases, regardless of the databases’ SQL implementation. For example, a SQL statement written against Oracle will also be interoperable with DB2.

Support for Oracle Security Features

Our driver supports Oracle Advanced Security Data Integrity Checks, Oracle Wallet SSL Authentication and Oracle Internet Directory (OID) authentication without additional driver configuration.

Encryption SSL 3.0, TLS 1.0, 1.1, 1.2 Compliant

We keep our SSL version up to date. Upon identification of any security vulnerability, Progress will exercise commercially reasonable efforts to address the vulnerability in accordance with the following policy.

Performance Tuning

Progress DataDirect management of packet-based network communication provides unsurpassed packet transport, network round trips and data buffering optimization. (socket management). Includes performance methodology for throughput and resource utillization (CPU/memory)

TSANet Multi-Vendor Support Channel

We live for your next big customer. Make sure your customers are successful with 24/7 partner support and access to expertise from our engineering teams, partnerships and leading technology companies such as Microsoft, Oracle, and IBM through our TSANet multi vendor support channel.

Day 1 Support for any new versions

Day One Support for disruptive technologies with frequent release cycles. With this strategy - the first of its kind for any data connectivity provider - Progress DataDirect on-premises ODBC and JDBC drivers will support any new versions of supported data sources.

Cross-platform Support

Use one ODBC driver for all versions of SQL that works across all platforms - Unix / Linux, AIX, Solaris, Windows and HP-UX .

Technical Specifications

All 32-bit versions of this driver are part of the Connect for ODBC Series. All 64-bit versions are part of the Connect64 for ODBC Series.

Progress DataDirect for ODBC for Oracle Wire Protocol Driver
Version 8.0.2
(32- and 64-bit drivers are available for all supported databases and platforms unless otherwise noted.)

ODBC Version Support

Compatible with ODBC 3.8 applications

Database Support

Oracle Database:
- Oracle 21c R1 (21.1) and higher
- Oracle 19c R1 (19.1) and higher
- Oracle 18c R1 (18.1) and higher
- Oracle 12c R1 (12.1) and higher
- Oracle 11g R1 (11.1) and higher
- Oracle 10g R1 (10.1) and higher
- Oracle 9i R2 (9.2) and higher
- Oracle8i R3 (8.1.7) and higher
Oracle Autonomous Data Warehouse Cloud
Oracle Autonomous Transaction Processing Cloud
Oracle Database Cloud Exadata Service
Oracle Database Cloud Service

Operating System Support

AIX (32- and 64-bit)

AIX, version 5.3 and higher

HP

HP-UX IPF, 11i version 2.0 (B.11.23) and higher
HP-UX PA-RISC (32-bit only),11i version 2.0 (B.11.23) and higher

Linux x86 (32- and 64-bit for AMD and Intel processors. 64-bit for Itanium II.)

CentOS Linux x86, version 4.0, 5.0, 6.0, 7.0, 8.0 and higher
Debian Linux x86, version 7.0, 8.0 and higher (AMD and Intel only)
Oracle Linux x86, version 4.0, 5.0, 6.0, 7.0, 8.0 and higher
Red Hat Enterprise Linux x86, version 4.0, 5.0, 6.0, 7.0, 8.0 and higher
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server Linux x86, version 10, 11, 12, 15 and higher (AMD and Intel only)
Ubuntu Linux x86, version 14.04, 16.04, 18.04 and higher (AMD and Intel only)

Linux on System Z (64-bit only)

CentOS Linux x64, version 4.0, 5.0, 6.0, 7.0, 8.0 and higher
Oracle Linux x64, version 4.0, 5.0, 6.0, 7.0, 8.0 and higher
Red Hat Enterprise Linux x64, version 4.0, 5.0, 6.0, 7.0, 8.0 and higher
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server Linux x64, version 10, 11, 12, 15 and higher

Solaris (32- and 64-bit)

Solaris x86, version 10 (Solaris 5.10), 11 and higher
Solaris on SPARC, version 8 (Solaris 5.8), 9, 10, 11 and higher

Windows (32- and 64-bit)

Windows (x86), version 7, 8.1, 10 and higher
Windows Server (x86), version 2008, 2012, 2016, 2019 and higher

Driver/Client Software Requirements

No requirements

Documentation

Progress DataDirect for ODBC for Oracle Wire Protocol Driver
Version 8.0.2

Progress DataDirect Connect and Connect64 for ODBC Oracle Driver
Version 7.1.6

Security Vulnerability Response Policy

Upon identification of any security vulnerability, Progress will exercise commercially reasonable efforts to address the vulnerability in accordance with the following policy

Priority*	Time Guideline	Version(s)
High Risk (CVSS 8+ or industry equivalent)	30 days	Active (i.e. latest shipping version) and all Supported versions
Medium Risk (CVSS 5-to-8 or industry equivalent)	180 days	Active (i.e. latest shipping version)
Low Risk (CVSS 0-to-5 or industry equivalent)	Next major release or best effort	Active (i.e. latest shipping version)

* Priority is established based on the current version of the Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS), an open industry standard for assessing the severity of computer system security vulnerabilities. For additional information on this scoring system, refer to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CVSS.

Tutorials

TUTORIAL

Connect to Oracle 11g from SAS Access on Linux using ODBC Driver

In this tutorial we will show you how to connect from SAS to Salesforce, SQL Server, Oracle or RedShift using our DataDirect Connect for ODBC drivers. The steps that we are using here can easily be applied to any of the other data sources that we support.

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Videos

Quick Video for installing DataDirect ODBC Driver on Windows

This quick video will show you how to download and install DataDirect ODBC drivers on Windows platforms.

Quick Video for installing DataDirect ODBC Driver on Unix / Linux

If you are working on a Unix / Linux system, this video will help you install our ODBC driver on your machines whether it is Unix, Linux, AIX, Solaris or HP-UX.

WIRE PROTOCOL

Our Oracle ODBC Driver Supports Wire Protocol

DataDirect's Oracle Wire Protocol ODBC driver connects to Oracle servers without the need for any Oracle networking software. The driver is optimized to communicate directly and efficiently with Oracle servers using the Oracle server wire protocol. Our ODBC Driver for Oracle also fully supports all Oracle systems including Oracle 8.1.5 and higher from a single wire protocol ODBC driver.

Build Custom Drivers with New ODBC and JDBC SDK v8.1 Release 870x220

TESTIMONIAL

SAP Recommends DataDirect's Oracle ODBC Driver

Data Services ODBC drivers are bundled with Data Services Installation and are installed in $LINK_DIR/DataDirect folder. They can be used to connect various data sources such as: DB2, Informix, MySQL, OpenEdge, Oracle, Postgre SQL, SQL Server, Sybase.

CASE STUDY

Toyota Saved $100,000 using ODBC drivers for Oracle, SQL Server and DB2

When Toyota Motor Sales introduced Progress DataDirect for ODBC to their intricate data architecture, they saved $100,000 in 24 hours. Learn more in this case study about how they were able to use our ODBC Driver to provide out-of-the-box Oracle database connection.

Powerful Oracle ODBC driver

Overview