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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

GitHub Container Registry has Oracle Instant Client Images

Containers for Oracle Instant Client 19 and 21 are now in the GitHub Container Registry for Oracle Linux 7 and Oracle Linux 8: oraclelinux7-instantclient oraclelinux8-instantclient Oracle Instant Client enables development and deployment of applications that connect to Oracle Database, either on-premise or in the Cloud. The Instant Client libraries provide the necessary network connectivity and advanced data features to make full use of Oracle Database. The libraries are used...

Getting Started with Node.js and Oracle Database

I've created some new 'quick starts' to get you quickly up and running with Node.js and Oracle Database: Quick Start: Developing Node.js Applications for Oracle Database and Quick Start: Developing Node.js Applications for Oracle Autonomous Database Take a look!  These walk through installing and setting up the environment you need to connect Node.js to Oracle Database.

Getting started with Python and Oracle Database

If your colleagues (or you) are looking to get started with Python and Oracle Database, then point them at our new on-boarding tutorials: Quick Start: Developing Python Applications for Oracle Database and Quick Start: Developing Python Applications for Oracle Autonomous Database These walk through installing and setting up the environment you need to connect Python to Oracle Database. Once you have done one of these, then continue with the popular Python and Oracle Database...

In-place updates with Oracle Instant Client 21c RPMs on Linux

Oracle Instant Client 21c is available for Linux x64. You can get it from the usual places: the Linux Instant Client download page or from yum.oracle.com. Oracle Instant Client enables development and deployment of applications that connect to Oracle Database, either on-premise or in the Cloud. The Instant Client libraries provide the necessary network connectivity and advanced data features to make full use of Oracle Database. There have been a few changes in this release. Sinc...

Faster JSON with node-oracledb 5.1 and Oracle Database 21's new OSON storage format

  Release announcement: A new release of node-oracledb, the Node.js module for accessing Oracle Database, is available from npm. Top features: Support for Oracle Database 21's faster JSON features; automatic numeric suffixes for duplicate column names; more control for fetching Oracle Database Object and Collections.     To accompany the Oracle Database 21c release, we are happy to bring you the node-oracledb 5.1 update with: Enhanced JSON functionality to support Oracle Database...

Faster JSON with Python cx_Oracle 8.1 and Oracle Database 21's new OSON storage format

    cx_Oracle 8.1, 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 top features in cx_Oracle 8.1 are: Support for Python 3.9 was added. Also support Python 3.5 was removed, since it has reached end-of-life. Enhanced JSON functionality to support Oracle Database 21's native OSON storage format for...

External and Proxy Connection Syntax Examples for node-oracledb

Here's a demo showing the connection syntax for node-oracledb in various proxy and external authentication connection scenarios. The script mentions Oracle 12.2 because that is what I was testing way back at the time I wrote the script. I was also checking an enhancement in 18.3. You may find that most syntaxes are usable with earlier Oracle versions. We also tweaked some behavior in node-oracleb 3.1, so if you have an older version you will see differences in cases 4 and...

Notarized macOS Oracle Instant Client Packages Make Installation Easier

Instant Client 19.8 for macOS is now available on OTN. This release introduces notarized DMG packages, making installation on recent macOS versions smoother: there is no need for manual approval of the shared libraries or running xattr commands. The ZIP files are still available, but I'm told that in some future version only DMGs will be released. Oracle Instant Client gives free, light-weight, and easily installed Oracle Database tools, libraries and SDKs. Update: Instant...

How to connect to Oracle Autonomous Cloud Databases

To connect your applications to an Oracle Autonomous Cloud Database - any of the Oracle Autonomous Database services like Autonomous Data Warehouse (ADW), Autonomous Transaction Processing (ATP), or the new Oracle Autonomous JSON Database (AJD) - then you will need to download and use a 'wallet'. This gives mutual TLS which provides enhanced security for authentication and encryption. This post shows how to download a wallet and use it to connect to your Autonomous database...