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What is the difference between ODBC and Net8?

April 26, 2017difference Net8 ODBC

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What is the difference between ODBC and Net8?

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ODBC is an industry standard way to connect to SQL databases like Oracle, SQL Server and DB2. Net8 or SQL*Net is an Oracle proprietary standard connection protocol that only works with Oracle databases. The fact that it is proprietary usually means that it is slightly faster, better integrated with Oracle and more feature rich. Most ODBC to Oracle implementations require the ODBC software stack to run on top of the Oracle Net8 software stack.