The Oracle Instant Client is an easy to install client for Oracle Databases utilizing the Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
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How to install Oracle Instant Client on a Mac?
How to install Oracle Instant Client Version 12.1.0.2 (64-bit) on a Mac (OS X 10.11.5)
I have downloaded version 12.1.0.2 (64-bit) version and unzipped the file.
I now have the following files under…

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installing Oracle Instantclient on Mac OS/X without setting environment variables?
Oracle's instructions specify setting DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH. This makes my application dependent on random users' configuration and is very troublesome to set up.
How can I avoid having to set any environment…

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Fatal error: Call to undefined function oci_connect()
I have the next lines uncommented (in my php.ini):
extension=php_oracle.dll
extension=php_oci8.dll
And I downloaded this file instantclient-basiclite-nt-11.2.0.2.0.zip and unzipped and put that on drive D...
I am using Windows XP
I set environment…

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Oracle ORA-01805 on Oracle 11g database
Our Oracle 10g database was recently upgraded to 11g. The database is running on a Windows Server 2003 X64 machine. In SQL queries from a .NET application that access a table that has a TIMESTAMP (6) WITH TIME ZONE data columns, I am getting the…

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How does one enable the OCI8 PHP extension, using the Oracle Instant Client, in Ubuntu 18.04 LTS with PHP-FPM and NGINX?
I'm using the latest PHP packages available from https://launchpad.net/~ondrej/+archive/ubuntu/php .
When I build and install the OCI8 extension, everything appears to be in order, but despite enabling the extension in the PHP-FPM configuration, its…

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Oracle: what is the "instantclient" connection string format?
and how does it differ from the regular connection string?

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installing Oracle Instantclient on Linux without setting environment variables?
Oracle's instructions specify setting LD_LIBRARY_PATH. This makes my application dependent on random users' configuration and is very troublesome to set up.
How can I avoid having to set any environment variables?
related note for OS/X: installing…

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ORA-12705: Cannot access NLS data files or invalid environment specified
I just installed the Oracle instant client on my laptop, and get this when I try to connect via ODBC in C#. The machine has had 9.2 and 10.2 installed in the past.
Why does this error appear? In my connection string, can I tell it to ignore the…

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Unable to connect SQLState=08004 [Oracle][ODBC][Ora]ORA-12154: TNS:could not resolve the connect identifier specified in ms odbc administrator
I want to add two service names in one tnsnames.ora file and getting error
in below 2 image in "Microsoft ODBC Driver Configuration".

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How to install oracle instantclient and pdo_oci on ubuntu machine?
I need to install PDO_OCI in ubuntu machine, there is no default package that I could install with apt-get.
There are a lot of tutorials showing how to do it, but when I follow them, I have problems related to compilation (configure, make,...)
Here…

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Installing oci8 driver: (pecl install oci8) Oracle Instant Client SDK header files not found (Mac OSX High Sierra)
I need to install the oci8 driver for MacOSX (High Sierra). However, whenever I run the command pecl install oci8, I get asked.
Please provide the path to the ORACLE_HOME directory. Use 'instantclient,/path/to/instant/client/lib' if you're…
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Connecting to Oracle RDS from Lambda Function in AWS
I am trying to connect to my Oracle engine based RDS from lambda function and perform simple select queries.I have done the following:
Downloaded instantclient-sdk-linux.x64-18.3.0.0.0dbru.zip and…

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How to download and setup sqlplus for running sql commands?
I am sorry, for bugging you all with a very silly question probably, but I just started learning data base management system, and today I attempted my first sql class where I had to login by providing my login details and learned some introductory…

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Excel VBA connect to remote Oracle DB with InstantClient
I am trying to use Excel (mainly 2003, for more user compatibility) to connect to a remote Oracle DB. I would like to run a .sql script and return the dataset to a worksheet.
I am on a Windows 7 64bit machine. I do not know the specs of the Oracle…

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Oracle instant client with C# windows forms application
I have been looking for this for long time ,
I have developed Windows Forms App using C # that have to connect Oracle database,
this app will be used on many PCs using windows XP and windows 7
After long research i have found that i need to use…

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