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Open Source Python Thin Driver for Oracle Database

A new major Python cx_Oracle driver release is available and comes with a brand new name, python-oracledb. This is very exciting news.

6 min readMay 25, 2022

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Django 5 and Oracle Autonomous Database

I’m posting this quick blog in the ‘so I can find it again’ category. The question came up about how to connect to Oracle Autonomous…

3 min read3 days ago

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Django 5 and Oracle Autonomous Database

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python-oracledb 2.1 and node-oracledb 6.4 have been released

I’m still on a long sabbatical so this will be a brief post. In my absence our Oracle Database driver team has been busy and are proud to…

2 min readMar 12, 2024

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python-oracledb 2.1 and node-oracledb 6.4 have been released

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Python-oracledb 2.0 has asyncio support

python-oracledb 2.0, the extremely popular Oracle Database interface for Python, is now on PyPI.

5 min readDec 19, 2023

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Django 5.0 supports python-oracledb natively

A new major release of Django is available with native support for python-oracledb.

2 min readDec 14, 2023

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Django 5.0 supports python-oracledb natively

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Desktop applications with node-oracledb and electron

In conference sessions this year I showed a desktop application that connects to Oracle Database. It was built using HTML, Node.js, the…

7 min readDec 4, 2023

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Screen shot of the running application showing input fields for a username, password and database connection string. A button can be clicked to log in to the database. A second button can be clicked to query the current date of the database. This date is shown in the application.

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Concurrent Python Programming with python-oracledb and asyncio

The long wait for Python asyncio support in python-oracledb is over! A pre-release is available in python-oracledb 2.0. (Update…

6 min readNov 30, 2023

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For Oracle Database drivers, follow these blogs

If you aren’t already following them, make sure to keep an eye on the blogs of the colleagues in my team who also cover Oracle Database…

1 min readNov 20, 2023

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Using node-oracledb Thick mode in Next.js

Using node-oracledb’s default Thin mode in Next.js to connect to Oracle Database is easy. But what about the node-oracledb Thick mode that…

2 min readNov 1, 2023

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Using node-oracledb Thick mode in Next.js

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LDAP in python-oracledb?

Are you looking for how to get an Oracle Database connection string from LDAP to use in python-oracledb? On GitHub, danidorbek has been…

1 min readOct 24, 2023

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Christopher Jones

Christopher Jones

Oracle Database Product Manager for language drivers including Python python-oracledb, Node.js node-oracledb, PHP OCI8 and more! On Mastodon: @cjbj@phpc.social

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