Connecting Oracle 8i and 11g from SSIS

Question

I'm using SSIS to connect and pull data from Oracle 8i and 11g for my current project. But I learned that oracle 11g driver is only compatible from 9i.

What is the most feasible solution to connect SSIS with both 11g and 8i? Thanks for your suggestions.

Answer 1

Upgrading the 8i database would be the best solution but assuming that's not possible right now, I would write a script on the 8i server itself to export the data to flat files, then copy those flat files to the SSIS server and process them from there.