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Oracle Corporation is an American multinational computer technology corporation that specializes in developing and marketing hardware systems and enterprise software products – particularly database management systems...
C library that delivers fast and reliable access to Oracle databases
Oracle Database
The Oracle Database is an object-relational database management system produced and marketed by Oracle Corporation....
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The OCILIB library :
offers a rich, full featured and easy to use C API
runs on all Oracle platforms
is written in pure ISO C code with native ISO C Unicode
Unicode
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In computer programming, a library is a collection of subroutines or classes used to develop software. Libraries expose interfaces which clients of the library use to execute library routines. Wrapper libraries consist of a thin layer of code which translates a library's existing interface into a...
OCILIB is used in applications written in various languages such as C
C (programming language)
C is a general-purpose computer programming language developed between 1969 and 1973 by Dennis Ritchie at the Bell Telephone Laboratories for use with the Unix operating system....
C++ is a statically typed, free-form, multi-paradigm, compiled, general-purpose programming language. It is regarded as an intermediate-level language, as it comprises a combination of both high-level and low-level language features. It was developed by Bjarne Stroustrup starting in 1979 at Bell...
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Blitz BASIC refers to the programming language dialect that was interpreted by the first Blitz compilers, devised by New Zealand-based developer Mark Sibly. Being derived from BASIC, Blitz syntax was designed to be easy to pick-up for beginners first learning to program...
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Compatibilities
OCILIB runs on any 32 bits and 64 bits platform having an ISO C compliant compiler and supported by Oracle.
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OpenVMS , previously known as VAX-11/VMS, VAX/VMS or VMS, is a computer server operating system that runs on VAX, Alpha and Itanium-based families of computers. Contrary to what its name suggests, OpenVMS is not open source software; however, the source listings are available for purchase...
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Various CCs
Library
Pure ISO code (ANSI / Wide string)
Easy API (JDBC's like)
Cross platform
Compatible with all Oracle versions >= 8i
Full Unicode support (UTF8 and UTF16)
Supports static / shared oracle linkage
Supports runtime loading of Oracle shared libraries
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Oracle TAF (Transparent Application Failover) and HA (High availabality) support)
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