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oracle-databaseodbcdatabase-connectionoracle12c
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Reputation: 363

Is it possible for odbc driver, SQORA32.DLL , be either 32-bit or 64-bit?

I recently downloaded the 12c oracle client 64bit (with ODBC drivers included during installation).

Afterwards, I opened both ODBC administrators, 32-bit and 64-bit, and only the ODBC administrator 64-bit list the Oracle driver (when adding a new System DSN) which makes me assume that only 64-bit Oracle driver was included; however, looking at the filename... it is named SQORA32.DLL. Is this a 64-bit odbc driver still? Can I disregard the name?

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Upvotes: 0

Views: 11233

Answers (1)

TallTed
TallTed

Reputation: 9434

Yes, the filename is strictly cosmetic, and doesn't mean anything with regards to the "bitness" of the DLL.

Once upon a time, 32 was used in file and directory names to help distinguish between 16-bit and 32-bit variants, but that fell by the wayside long ago. System32 does not indicate 32-bit content (though it is, on 32-bit systems); on 64-bit systems, it is full of 64-bit binaries.

Similarly, and even more confusingly, SysWoW64 does not indicate 64-bit content. In fact, SysWoW64 indicates 32-bit content on 64-bit systems!

Upvotes: 4

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