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Why would a customer want to pay for the Transparent Gateway?

April 26, 2017customer Gateway pay transparent

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Why would a customer want to pay for the Transparent Gateway?

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Technically, ODBC is a generic protocol that offers lowest-common-denominator type access. In contrast, the Transparent Gateways are optimized solutions for specific data sources. On a support level, the difference is that with ODBC the customer must obtain and configure the ODBC driver himself. Oracle guarantees support for the ODBC interface, but any problems related to the ODBC driver, e.g. faulty ODBC driver, miss configuration issues, non-availability of ODBC driver for a particular version of the data source, must be addressed by the customer. With the Transparent Gateways, Oracle offers end-to-end support for accessing a particular data source.