Two new Technical Briefs on configuring Oracle Database client connectivity using directory naming services have been published. Follow the links for the PDFs:
Release 4.5 of the 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 features:
- Support for Azure Active Directory OAuth 2.0 token based authentication
- Advanced Queuing (AQ) APIs now support enqueuing and dequeuing of JSON payloads.
ODPI-C References
- Home page: oracle.github.io/odpi/
- Code: github.com/oracle/odpi
- Documentation: oracle.github.io/odpi/doc/index.html
- Release Notes: oracle.github.io/odpi/doc/releasenotes.html
- Installation Instructions: oracle.github.io/odpi/doc/installation.html
- Report issues and discuss: github.com/oracle/odpi/issues
Release announcement: A new release of node-oracledb, the Node.js and TypeScript module for accessing Oracle Database, is available from npm.
Top features: OAuth 2.0 Token Support
OAuth 2.0 token authentication to Oracle Database is now supported by node-oracledb 5.5. This lets Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) users be centrally managed by Microsoft Azure Active Directory.
See the CHANGELOG for all other changes.
Installing or Upgrading node-oracledb
You can install or upgrade node-oracle by updating your package.json requirements:
"dependencies": {
"oracledb": "^5.5"
},Resources
- Node-oracledb installation instructions are here.
- Node-oracledb documentation is here.
- Node-oracledb change log is here.
- Issues and questions about node-oracledb can be posted on GitHub or Slack (link to join Slack).
- Follow us on Twitter or Facebook.
Finally, contributions to node-oracledb are more than welcome, see CONTRIBUTING.
A community contribution has upgraded the Apache Airflow provider for Oracle Database from the Python cx_Oracle driver namespace to use its new name python-oracledb. Since python-oracledb doesn’t need Oracle Client libraries, this means installation just got a lot easier.
If you don’t know what Airflow is, from its website:
“Airflow is a platform to programmatically author, schedule and monitor workflows.”
Thanks Leonard Meerwood, Jarek Potiuk and Đặng Minh Dũng for getting the upgrade merged!
RESOURCES
- Apache Airflow provider:
apache-airflow-providers-oracle - Python-oracledb Home page: oracle.github.io/python-oracledb
- Installation instructions: python-oracledb.readthedocs.io/en/latest/installation.html
- Documentation: python-oracledb.readthedocs.io
- Questions: github.com/oracle/python-oracledb/discussions
- Source Code Repository: github.com/oracle/python-oracledb
Thanks to a community pull request from Xylar Asay-Davis, the Python python-oracledb driver for Oracle Database is now installable using conda:
conda config --add channels conda-forge
conda config --set channel_priority strict
conda create -y -n test oracledb
conda activate test
python -c "import oracledb"Thank you Xylar!
