title: What is the ODBC connection string to an Oracle database knowing the JDBC connection string
body: <p>The working JDBC connection to a Oracle 18c database is like this:</p>
  <pre><code>&quot;jdbc:oracle:thin:@//the.server.name.org:1580/boilerinfo&quot;
  </code></pre>
  <p>What is the correct ODBC connection string to connect to the same database? I tried just <code>&quot;odbc:oracle:thin...&quot;</code> but this doesn't do the trick. I then had a look at <a href="https://www.connectionstrings.com/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">www.connectionstrings.com/</a>, but couldn't find the JDBC scheme to start with...</p>
  <h3>Additional info</h3>
  <ul>
  <li>The machine running the connection string is a CentOS Linux machine if that matters.</li>
  <li>I need the ODBC connection string for a small program which accesses the database in the same way as the old Java program uses the JDBC string</li>
  </ul>