Emanuele Meazzo needs to pull data from Oracle into SQL Server:
The most atrocious part of my search for glory was without doubt navigating all the packages to download and install for each component, between broken links and differences between the instructions and the actual content, it’s a mess.
It took a while, based on Emanuele’s tone. With SQL Server 2019, you can avoid some of this pain by using PolyBase. But for prior versions of SQL Server, your options are more limited.