Hi G&G
All this time I was (and still) under the impression that Oracle needs to be installed prior in a client machine, if one intends to use Oracle db as backend. But today one programmer says it is not necessary. Oracle (or its reqd components) can be deployed something like we usually do with Access.

The siuation is like this, we have a db in oracle with some essential tables having data, while other tables without data (to be filled by user using the front end VB).

Our goal is to ensure all the necessary db/tables gets installed and the SQL specific to Oracle runs. But we don't want the Oracle itself get installed.

Front End is VB6.

Ofcourse the programmer declined to divluge more saying its Technical (read secret)

Can someone shed some light.

Thankz in advance