README for Oracle 8.0.3 installation
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 (akshai@cc.gatech.edu)

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Connecting using JDBC
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To connect using JDBC, you need to have the Oracle JDBC drivers
(available at 
http://www.cc.gatech.edu/classes/cs6450_99_spring/dbtools/oracle_jdbc.tar.gz)

(I have only tried this out on Solaris)

Install the drivers somewhere (say INSTALL_DIR points to this
directory) and then add the file $INSTALL_DIR/lib/classes111.zip 
into your CLASSPATH variable:

export CLASSPATH=$CLASSPATH:$INSTALL_DIR/lib/classes111.zip

Then add the directory $INSTALL_DIR/lib into your
LD_LIBRARY_PATH variable:

export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$LD_LIBRARY_PATH:$INSTALL_DIR/lib


Now you should be able to connect to the Oracle database
using the 'Thin Client' JDBC driver (a few examples of this
are given in $INSTALL_DIR/samples/thin)

The URL to use is illustrated below:
    Connection conn =
      DriverManager.getConnection ("jdbc:oracle:thin:@yangtze:1521:cc",
                                   "user", "password");

Contact akshai@cc or waigen@cc for a login in the database.