title: How to access an Oracle 9.2 *and* Oracle 12c DB with Kotlin running on Java 10+?
body: <p>I'm developing an application, written in Kotlin on JDK 10+, that has to:</p>
  <ul>
  <li>access a legacy Oracle DB version 9.2</li>
  <li>stores the data on Oracle DB 12c</li>
  </ul>
  <p>Is there anyway in which a JDK 10+ application can connect to Oracle 9.2? I cannot find any driver whatsoever that supports Oracle 9.2 even for JDK 8...</p>
  <p>Alternatively is it somehow possible to configure DB link between the 12c and the 9.2 DBs? I know that some features may not be supported, but we aren't going to need advanced stuff so even if it is not officially supported if the authentication for the DB link works and basic queries works it should be enough for us.</p>
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  <p>Note:</p>
  <ul>
  <li>it is impossible to upgrade the legacy DB. There are literally hundreds of other legacy systems that access that DB.</li>
  <li>The security groups for our client wont probably allow deploying completely outdated JDKs like 1.6/1.7.... <em>maybe</em> they could allow 1.8...</li>
  <li>Yes, they should have kept updating the stuff years and years and years ago, we already know that.</li>
  </ul>