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Oracle Gateways provide the ability to transparently access the data located in a non-Oracle system from an Oracle environment. This transparency eliminates the need for application developers to customize their applications to access data from different non-Oracle systems. We followed the steps below to configure Oracle Gateways for Microsoft SQL Server:
[oracle@ oracle] $ unzip LINUX.X64_193000_gateways.zip
[oracle@ db_home1] $. /runInstaller