ANNOUNCE: DBD::Oracle 1.23 has Been Released.

The Sesame Street Version Of DBD::Oracle (1.23) has Been Released.

You can find it at CPAN DBD::Oracle.

DBD::Oracle is the Perl module that works with the DBI module to provide 
access to Oracle databases. It is maintained by me, John Scoles, under 
the auspices of The Pythian Group as open source/free software.

This release is another largely maintenance release that fixes a number 
of bugs.

New stuff includes the ability to fetch Oracle embedded types directly 
into an oracle object, a big thank you goes out to Tomas Pokorny for 
that patch.

Also UTF8 support has been expanded and cleaned up for BLOBs and 
execute_array and thanks go out to Milo van der Leij, David Mansfield 
for most of the work on this.

Also a big thanks Alex Buttery, Jim McCullars, Charles Jardine, Eric 
Simon, Chris Underhill who helped out with some clean up of the code, 
readmes and the pod.

I have also now added two private statement functions ora_stmt_type_name 
and ora_stmt_type which will get the OCI type name and type for the 
currently prepared statement.

*This is the complete change list*

    * Fix from rt.cpan.org ticket #=44788 bool in_lite should be char
      in_literal
    * Fix for UTF8 and blobs by John Scoles with Milo van der Leij
    * Fix for some warnings and one bug in ocitrace.h from Charles Jardine
    * Fix in case there may be a bug in 11 where the OCI_ATTR_DATA_SIZE
      my return 0 which should never happen, John Scoles
    * Fix on the Makefile.PL for a possible sql bug in IC from Martin Evans
    * Added a change from a suggestion from Martin Evans for making ref
      cursors faster.
    * Added rt.cpan.org Ticket #=42328 ora_objects attribute for
      extended embedded objects support from Tomas Pokorny
    * Fix for rt.cpan.org Ticket #=42328 user defined types from
      different schema in describe_obj from Tomas Pokorny
    * Added a README for sun suggested by Jim McCullars
    * Clean up of white space and formatting to 4 tabs from John Scoles
    * Fix for GCC 4.3 warnings from Eric Simon
    * Standardized the dbd_verbose levels so they are all 3 and over.
      from John Scoles
    * Added private statement functions ora_stmt_type_name and
      ora_stmt_type from John Scoles
    * Update to POD from Chris Underhill
    * Added README.win64.txt with content from Alex Buttery
    * Fix for rt.cpan.org Ticket #=21920 Bug with Oracle DBD for Mac OS
      X Instant Client From boingolover
    * Added a few more constants to get rid of magic numbers from John
      Scoles
    * Fix for rt.cpan.org Ticket #=38267 Inserts/Updates to BLOB's via
      synonyms fails from John Scoles
    * Fix for rt.cpan.org Ticket #=39603 build problem and fix missing
      functions in oci.def from Zoltán Sebestyén
    * Fix for rt.cpan.org Ticket #=39374 Makefile.PL: error when
      reducing echo messages from make from Tippa
    * Fix for rt.cpan.org Ticket #=39232 binding large XMLTYPE fails on
      64-bit perl from Jeff Klein
    * Fix for rt.cpan.org Ticket #=38749 Warning of a NULL column in an
      aggregate function also added ora_oci_success_warn to display
      silent OCI warnings from John Scoles
    * Patch for UTF8 check on execute_array from David Mansfield and a
      little by John Scoles