PHP and Oracle: Christopher Jones

Just to update you on DBD::Oracle I have introduced a large number on
innovative features in the last few releases namely it now supports


1) Seamless Support for SELECT of Embedded objects (VARRY,TABLE,OBJECT)
fields

2) Support for insert of XML documents into XMLType fields

3) Support scrollable cursors

4) Support for INOUT array Binding

5) Support for the 10.2 Data Interface for Persistent LOBs

"PHP and Oracle used to be considered a strange combination. Now having Oracle working on and contributing to the PHP OCI8 extension, I am assured that features that I want to leverage will be available to our application in future database releases because Oracle is actively working on the extension with foresight"

"There's a lot of thought that goes into making our site scale for large numbers of concurrent users, and Oracle's attention to this idea is resulting in new features that have immediate impact," says Dixon. One of those features is database resident connection pooling, introduced in Oracle Database 11g to address scalability requirements in environments requiring large numbers of connections with minimal database resource usage. "Connection pooling will be huge for us"