Can an Oracle Instant Client be used to set up a direct connection from an ESRI client application to an ArcSDE geodatabase?

Article Number: 000001341 - Last Modified: Jul 11, 2011

Can an Oracle Instant Client be used to set up a direct connection from an ESRI client application to an ArcSDE geodatabase?

According to this article on the ESRI support website, the Oracle instant client is not enough for a client application to set up a direct connection to an ArcSDE Geodatabase.

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To obtain the necessary files, the Oracle Standard or Enterprise Edition client must be installed.

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