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documentation, including help files that might have been copied to your system when
you installed ODBC drivers. If you are running ColdFusion Server on a UNIX machine,
refer to the MERANT ODBC documentation, which is distributed with ColdFusion as
an Acrobat file. By default, it is installed as:
<installdir>/coldfusion/odbc/doc/odbchelp.pdf
Native Drivers
The Enterprise edition of ColdFusion Server includes support for DB2, Informix,
Sybase System 11, Sybase Adaptive Server 11.5, and Oracle 7.3 8.0, and 8i databases
through native database drivers on both Windows NT and UNIX platforms. (See
“Supported Databases” on page 79 for a complete list of databases supported through
both ODBC and native drivers.) You might consider using native database drivers
because
• Native drivers tend to offer better performance than their ODBC counterparts.
• Stored procedures are only available through native drivers.
Software requirements for Native Drivers
Before you can use the ColdFusion native database drivers, you need to install
additional client software. The following table details requirements for each database
and each supported platform.
You must install the database client software and ColdFusion Server software on the
same server. For more information about connecting to databases using ColdFusion
native drivers, refer to the section for your particular database later in this chapter.
Software Requirements for Native Database Drivers
Database Client Software
Oracle 7.3 Oracle 7.3.x client
Oracle 8.0 Oracle 8.0 client
Sybase System 11
Sybase Adaptive Server 11.5
Sybase Open Client version 11.1.0 with Update
11.1.1 applied (Solaris and Windows NT)
Informix 7.3 and 9 Informix ESQL/C
Informix-CLI
IBM DB2 5.0/6.1 IBM DB2 Client Application Enabler version 5 or 6