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From: phil@ryoko.cis.pitt.edu (Phil Ross)
Newsgroups: comp.databases.oracle.tools
Subject: Re: OCI under Linux
Date: 12 Oct 1998 12:48:16 GMT
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On Mon, 12 Oct 1998 10:01:40 +0200, Renzo Toma
<renzo@REMOVETHIS.veronica.nl> wrote:
>I have been looking for an OCI (Oracle Call Interface) implementation
>under Linux. Tried to compile DBI/DBOracle (Perl) with libs from
>Oracle/Linux v8.0.5 but that version doesnt have the rdbms/demo dir with
>headerfiles. I tried to copy the Oracle/Solaris files. Compiling worked
>but initialisation of the lib crashed :(
	If you are using the pre-production release you have to download
patches from technet.oracle.com of which one of them includes the header
files you'll need, and another contains a patched OCI client library.


>Besides waiting for final version of Oracle/Linux (hopefully with the
>rdbms/demo OCI files), there isnt much I can do. Or can I ??
	The production release is available, check out:
		technet.oracle.com


>Any experience with OCI under Linux ? Only simple select and update
>querries to a remote Oracle DB are required. I am curious to hear of
>different approaches..
	Both Oracle server and OCI client libraries work fine under Linux.
I'm making heavy use of PHP which links in the OCI libraries to do all of
it's Oracle access via SQL*Net.  I'm very happy with it...it was of better
quality than I expected.

							-Phil