Recent Posts by Christopher Jones

Anthony Tuininga's recent Oracle Code One conference session on Python cx_Oracle best practices was recorded and is available on YouTube: The slides are here. cx_Oracle References Home page: oracle.github.io/python-cx_Oracle/index.html Installation instructions: cx-oracle.readthedocs.io/en/latest/installation.html Documentation: cx-oracle.readthedocs.io/en/latest/index.html Release Notes: cx-oracle.readthedocs.io/en/latest/releasenotes.html Source Code Repository: github.com/oracle/...

The Oracle Linux group is pushing forward hard and their latest news is that Instant Client RPMs for Oracle Linux are downloadable for Oracle Linux 7 and Oracle Linux 6 without needing a click-through. This means you can now more easily provision systems using an automated install process. Sergio's blog post has the announcement and steps to use the packages. Our Instant Client 18.3 Dockerfile has also been updated. As you'd expect, 'docker build' now does the download and...

We just released Oracle Database 18c XE:   Landing page: oracle.com/xe   Announcement blog post: https://blogs.oracle.com/oracle-database/oracle-database-18c-xe-now-available   Quick Start: https://www.oracle.com/database/technologies/appdev/xe/quickstart.html   FAQ: https://www.oracle.com/database/technologies/appdev/xe/faq.html   Download page: https://www.oracle.com/technetwork/database/database-technologies/express-edition/downloads/index.html   This is great news for developers.   You...

The time for Oracle OpenWorld and CodeOne conferences is fast approaching.  These two conferences run concurrently in San Francisco over October 22 - 25.  If you are flying in, you will have already sorted out your conference tickets, but if you are local there are options from the free Discover pass (search the page for 'Discover') on upwards that you should take advantage of. There are plenty of things to attend and do - you can get your hands dirty in any number of ways!...

    Release announcement: Node-oracledb 3.0.0, the Node.js module for accessing Oracle Database, is on npm. Top features: Simple Oracle Document Access (SODA) preview, Connection Pool draining, Call timeouts.   Node-oracledb 3 has been released, which is very exciting. This release adds support for some Oracle Database and Oracle Client 18c features. As with earlier versions, node-oracledb 3 is usable with Oracle Client libraries 11.2 onwards. This allows it to connect to...

Danilo Silva, a community member much involved with node-oracledb development, has opened a poll to identify the most requested node-oracledb features.  This will help prioritize our development efforts.  You can vote here! Danilo most recently contributed connection pool draining support to node-oracledb, which will be available with node-oracledb 3.0.

Release 3.0 of Oracle Database Programming Interface for C (ODPI-C) is now available on GitHub.  ODPI-C is an open source library of C code that simplifies access to Oracle Database for applications written in C or C++.     This release introduces support for Simple Oracle Document Access (SODA) when using Oracle Database 18c. SODA provides a non-SQL API for storing and accessing documents. Commonly documents are JSON, but other types can also be used. In this release the SODA...

cx_Oracle 7.0, the extremely popular Oracle Database interface for Python, is now Production on PyPI. cx_Oracle is an open source package that covers the Python Database API specification with many additions to support Oracle advanced features.     Anthony Tuininga has just released cx_Oracle 7.0. This release brings some key technologies and new features to the Python developer: Oracle Simple Document Access (SODA) support - an exciting addition to the standard relational access...

This is a quick placeholder cross-post of the 'so I can find it again' category: Sergio Leunissen from our Linux group has a blog post on using Node.js and node-oracledb on Oracle Linux.  You can find the post here.  The Oracle Linux RPMs packages make it all so easy!