Re: python for oracle 10g/12c

Jani Tiainen <[email protected]> Wed, 1 Mar 2017 14:52:30 +0200
Newsgroups gmane.comp.python.db.cx-oracle
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Oracle Instant Client and SDK can be obtained from Oracle site:

http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/database/features/instant-client/index-097480.html

Note that you have to register yourself before downloading.


Depending on your operating system what else you need varies.


On 01.03.2017 14:27, Venky wrote:
> Thanks for clarifying the details.
>
> So can you please help me with the location from where i can get all 
> the ones you mentioned ( like Instant Client, Instant Client 
> SDK, cx_Oracle,etc) so that i would be able to connect to oracle 
> 10g/12c using python once i installed it.
>
>
>
> On Tue, Feb 28, 2017 at 3:50 PM, Jani Tiainen <[email protected] 
> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>
>     Instant Client is set of OCI libraries that are used to
>     communicate to Oracle database.
>
>     And they are required, it's also required to have Instant Client
>     SDK files for compilation, and libaio1 installed from system packages.
>
>     cx_Oracle itself merely contains just bindings to communicate from
>     Python to Oracle through OCI libraries (Instant Client) and do
>     some conversions for certain datatypes.
>
>
>
>     On 28.02.2017 12:00, Venky wrote:
>>     Thanks for the quick reply.
>>
>>     Few queries, since i am a starter, what are InstantClient files?
>>     Is this compulsory?
>>
>>     Also installing "pip install cx_Oracle" on my linux box will
>>     install the latest Oracle driver and does this has the support
>>     for which i was asking?
>>     Anything else i need to install as part of this cx_Oracle?
>>
>>
>>     ~Venky
>>
>>     On Mon, Feb 27, 2017 at 10:49 PM, Anthony Tuininga
>>     <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>>
>>     wrote:
>>
>>         If you use the Oracle 12c Release 1 instant client you can
>>         access an Oracle 10g Release 2 or higher database. Anything
>>         earlier than that would require the use of the Oracle 11g
>>         Release 2 instant client instead. Since Oracle 10g Release 1
>>         is no longer supported the use of the Oracle 12c Release 1
>>         instant client should work perfectly for you.
>>
>>         Anthony
>>
>>         On Mon, Feb 27, 2017 at 9:22 AM, Chris Gould
>>         <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>>
>>         wrote:
>>
>>             If you use the Oracle 12c driver (and the 12c
>>             InstantClient files) it should be backward compatible
>>             with earlier versions of the database.
>>
>>
>>             On 27 February 2017 at 16:12, Venky
>>             <[email protected]
>>             <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>>
>>                 Hi Folks,
>>
>>                 Need you help. I wanted to automate few things for
>>                 Oracle 10g using python.
>>
>>                 So can you guys, help me locate the library for the
>>                 same. Also, in near future would be working on the
>>                 same but with Oracle 12c.
>>
>>                 So do we have a single oracle lib for python which
>>                 can work for all oracle versions or do we have lib
>>                 for oracle specific to versions?
>>
>>                 Anticipating your quick reply.
>>
>>
>>                 ~Venky
>>
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