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Christopher Jones

Senior Principal Product Manager

  • Christopher is a Senior Principal Product Manager working with the Oracle Database Data Access team primarily on APIs for scripting languages including Node.js, Python, PHP and the newly launched ODPI-C library for Oracle Database driver writers.  He has responsibilities for Oracle Call Interface (OCI) and related Oracle Database APIs; for Oracle Database clients such as Oracle Instant Client; and for general database adoption by developers, including championing Oracle Database XE.  He remains a lead maintainer of PHP's OCI8 extension for Oracle Database.  He co-released the popular book "The Underground PHP and Oracle Manual" and is the author of a number of technical articles.  Christopher has presented at big and small conferences around the world including the O'Reilly Open Source Convention and Oracle OpenWorld.  

    Twitter: @ghrd

    Email: christopher.jones@oracle.com

    Blog: http://blogs.oracle.com/opal/

    Christopher is a Senior Principal Product Manager working with the Oracle Database Data Access team primarily on APIs for scripting languages including Node.js, Python, PHP and the newly launched ODPI-C library for Oracle Database driver writers.  He has responsibilities for Oracle Call Interface (OCI) and related Oracle Database APIs; for Oracle Database clients such as Oracle Instant Client; and for general database adoption by developers, including championing Oracle Database XE.  He remains a lead maintainer of PHP's OCI8 extension for Oracle Database.  He co-released the popular book "The Underground PHP and Oracle Manual" and is the author of a number of technical articles.  Christopher has presented at big and small conferences around the world including the O'Reilly Open Source Convention and Oracle OpenWorld.  

    Twitter: @ghrd

    Email: christopher.jones@oracle.com

    Blog: http://blogs.oracle.com/opal/

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Recent Posts by Christopher Jones

Node-oracledb 5.0 Adds Nested Cursors, Database Startup, and Prefetch Tuning

  Release announcement: A new major release of node-oracledb, the Node.js module for accessing Oracle Database, is available from npm. Top features: New initialization function to locate Oracle Client libraries; Customizable prefetching for query fetch tuning; Support for nested cursors; Database startup and shutdown.   The node-oracledb 5.0 release bring big and small enhancements to the Node.js user. See the CHANGELOG for all the detail.   Main Changes New initialization function...

The New Python cx_Oracle 8.0 Interface for Oracle Database Brings Easier Configuration

cx_Oracle 8.0, the extremely popular Oracle Database interface for Python, is now Production on PyPI. cx_Oracle is an open source package for the Python Database API specification with many additions to support advanced Oracle Database features.   This is a major release that adds to cx_Oracle's great Oracle Database support. You can hear me talk about some of the new cx_Oracle 8 features in the June 2020 Python Office Hours recording. The release notes contain all the changes...

Part 2: Docker for Oracle Database Applications in Node.js and Python

This is the second in a two part series on using Docker for Oracle Database applications. Part 1: Installing Docker and Creating Images with the Oracle Client Part 2: Creating Docker Containers that Connect to Oracle Database The examples are for Node.js and Python, but the concepts are also useful for the many other languages whose database APIs are implemented on top of Oracle Call Interface; these other languages include C, PHP, Go, Ruby, Rust, Erlang, Julia, Nim, and...

Node-oracledb 4.2 with Improved Data Type Binding

Release announcement: A new release of node-oracledb, the Node.js module for accessing Oracle Database, is available from npm. Top features: Binding of NCHAR and new types; Finer grained control on bind data types; New result.lastRowid support; Client-initiated CQN connections           Significant changes in node-oracledb 4.2 are: New bind types and improvements. First, some background: when executing SQL, binding data values to the statement (instead of using...

Part 1: Docker for Oracle Database Applications in Node.js and Python

Welcome to this two part series on using Docker for Oracle Database applications. Part 1: Installing Docker and Creating Images with the Oracle Client Part 2: Creating Docker containers that connect to Oracle Database The examples are for Node.js and Python, but the concepts are also useful for the many other languages whose database APIs are implemented on top of Oracle Call Interface; these other languages include C, PHP, Go, Ruby, Rust, Erlang, Julia, Nim, and Haskell. Instal...

Whitepapers on Easy Connect Plus Syntax and CMAN Protocol Proxying

The Oracle Database Network Service development group is pleased to make two new technical whitepapers available from the Net Services Overview page: Oracle Database 19c Easy Connect Plus Easy Connect Plus is an enhancement to Oracle's Easy Connect connection syntax. The new syntax is available in Oracle Database drivers (JDBC, ODP.Net, cx_Oracle, node-oracledb etc) and tools that use Oracle Client 19c and connect to Oracle Database 11.2 or later. Easy Connect syntax has...

Python cx_Oracle 7.3 for Oracle Database is on PyPI

cx_Oracle 7.3, the extremely popular Oracle Database interface for Python, is now Production on PyPI. cx_Oracle is an open source package for the Python Database API specification with many additions to support advanced Oracle Database features. The cx_Oracle 7.3 release adds incremental improvements and fixes some bugs. This release is the first with pre-built binaries for the latest Python 3.8. Users of Continuous Query Notification (CQN) who have Oracle Database 19.4 and...

Node-oracledb 4.1 Oracle Database Sharding Support

Release announcement: A new release of node-oracledb, the Node.js module for accessing Oracle Database, is available from npm. Top features: Oracle Sharding Support See the CHANGELOG for all changes and bug fixes.   Significant changes in node-oracledb 4.1 are: Support for Oracle Sharding. Sharding can be used to horizontally partition data across independent databases. A database table can be split so each shard contains a table with the same columns but a different subset...

Permanent URLs for the Latest Instant Client Packages

Permanent URLs that download the latest Oracle Instant Client packages are now live on OTN.  Instant Client packages give you free, light-weight, and easily installed Oracle Database tools, libraries and SDKs. You can find the URLs at the top of each platform download page (e.g. the Linux x64 page). For quick reference, here are package links for the three top platforms: Package Windows x64 Linux x64 macOS Basic zip zip, RPM zip Basic Light zip zip, RPM zip SQL*Plus zip zip, RPM zip...