Recent Posts by Christopher Jones

Stop the presses! Downloads of Oracle Instant Client 19.3 packages for Linux and Windows no longer require login or a click-through. You can now automate downloads using your favorite tool such as wget or curl. URLs can be found on the platform pages: Windows x64 64-bit Windows 32-bit Linux x86-64 64-bit Linux x86 32-bit Many people have wanted the click-throughs removed. We're very pleased to have worked through all the processes and approvals to get to this point. I'm...

  Release announcement: A new release of node-oracledb, the Node.js module for accessing Oracle Database, is available from npm. Top features in node-oracledb 4.0: Querying and binding of named Oracle types; Oracle Advanced Queuing API. The team has been working hard on node-oracledb 4.0 and is very pleased to release it to you. You can install node-oracledb 4.0 from npm. It requires Node.js 8 or higher. With Node.js 8 the minimum patch level is 8.16. With Node.js 10 the minimum...

cx_Oracle 7.2, 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.   It's time for a tidy batch of enhancements and fixes to cx_Oracle. The top changes: Improved Oracle Advanced Queuing support: Added support for enqueue and dequeue of "RAW" payloads (adding to the previous support for object AQ...

  Release 3.2 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++. Top feature: Oracle Advanced Queue support for 'RAW' queues Excellent features and improvements have landed in ODPI-C 3.2. The highlights are: Advanced Queuing (AQ) support was enhanced with support for 'RAW' queue payloads. (This adds to the previous support for...

Things change fast and it's time for an update on running Node.js in Docker. Let's dive right in. Here's a Dockerfile that pulls the lightweight Oracle Linux "slim" image, installs the latest Node.js runtime, and installs the Oracle Client libraries needed for the node-oracledb module. Note no Docker store login or manual downloads are required: FROM oraclelinux:7-slim RUN yum -y install oracle-release-el7 oracle-nodejs-release-el7 && \ yum-config-manager --disable...

Oracle Instant Client 12.2 for macOS can now be downloaded for free from OTN. This release is for 64 bit only. It supports: MAC OS X 10.13, High Sierra MAC OS X 10.12, Sierra MAC OS X 10.11, El-Capitan Install instructions are at the end of the download page. Instant Client contains libraries and tools allowing applications to connect to a local or remote Oracle Database for development and production deployment. And if you haven't caught up with the news, Instant Client 12.2 now...

Oracle Instant Client 19.3 for z/Linux is on OTN here.  I had a few comments here about 19.3.

Oracle Instant Client 19.3 for Microsoft Windows (x64) 64-bit is available from OTN. Oracle Instant Client comprises tools, libraries and SDKs for building and connecting applications to Oracle Database. I had a few comments here about 19.3 that you may want to check. Windows Compilers and SDKs The following components are supported with the compilers based on Microsoft Visual C++ 2017 Update 6 or later and Intel C++ 17.0 Update 8, and Microsoft Visual C++ 2017 Update 6 or later...

A quick announcement: Oracle Instant Client 19.3 is now available on OTN for: AIX (PPC64) AIX (PPC32) HP-UX Itanium (64-bit) HP-UX Itanium (32-bit) Oracle Instant Client comprises tools, libraries and SDKs for building and connecting applications to Oracle Database. I had a few comments here about 19.3.