From: wdrake at my-dejanews.com (wdrake at my-dejanews.com)
Date: Fri, 30 Apr 1999 18:54:25 GMT
Subject: Oracle Call Interface
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I was interested in using Oracle's Advanced Queuing (AQ), specifically the
asynchronous event notification features.

Thanks

In article <3729ADDA.8E51C1D0 at palladion.com>,
  Tres Seaver <tseaver at palladion.com> wrote:
> Jeffrey Chang wrote:
> >
> > > If anyone has experience writing applications directly to the Oracle Call
> > > Interface (OCI), in Python or JPython please send me examples or
references on
> > > how to do it.
> >
> > Yuck!  What are you planning to do?  Do you really really need to write
> > directly to the OCI or can you use one of the available Oracle extension
> > modules?
> >
> > About a year ago, I used the oracledb module from Digital Creations with
> > Oracle7.  It's very nice, but not optimized, and thus slow for large
> > queries.  Since then, Digital Creations has made DCOracle
> > (http://www.digicool.com/DCOracle/; their commercial extension module)
> > open source, so I guess that will replace oracledb.  I haven't looked at
> > it, but according to the FAQ, it's "much faster."
> >
> > I strongly advise you to use an extension module or JDBC if at all
> > possible.  Writing to the OCI is extremely ugly -- all the stuff we try to
> > avoid by using python!
>
> ODBC/JDBC solutions suffer from "least-common-denominator" symptom;  one can't
> easily exploit Oracleisms.  I haven't played with DCOracle yet, but wrapping
OCI
> into a nice Pythonic package would be a big win in some situations (passing
> array parameters to stored procedures is the one I most often want).
>
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