Re: [cx-oracle-users] Lightweight/built-in Oracle client

[Amaury F. d'A. <ama...@gm...>]

2006/9/23, Aaron Heinrich <ne...@gm...>:
> Hello All,
>
>  Using cx_Oracle, I'm trying to establish a connection to a remote database. I tried to deploy my tool on a terminal without any kind of Oracle client software. While I run Oracle client software on my machine, I'd prefer to not have to deploy Oracle client on any terminal wishing to use this tool. As I read through the mailing list, a similar question was posed, but I don't know if a client solution was ever included into cx_Oracle
...
>
>  The other proposed solution included using the OIC. If cx_Oracle has no alternative, I'll make use of this, but I just wanted to see if anyone had a brighter idea. I am using a w32 environment, connecting to Oracle 9i DB
>

To my knowledge, any connection to an Oracle database requires one of
these three components :
- a regular Oracle client installation
- Oracle Instant Client
- the Oracle JDBC "Thin" driver. This one has no chance to work with cx_Oracle.

On Windows at least, it's very easy to use the Oracle Instant Client
with cx_Oracle: just copy the 3 needed Dlls in the same directory as
cx_Oracle.pyd ! And no need to change setup.py: the standard
distribution should work as is.

Hope this helps,

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Amaury Forgeot d'Arc