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From: wdrake at my-dejanews.com (wdrake at my-dejanews.com)
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Date: Fri, 30 Apr 1999 18:54:25 GMT
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Subject: Oracle Call Interface
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References: <7gb3hn$lse$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> <Pine.GSO.3.96.990430003346.3541A-100000@saga1.Stanford.EDU> <3729ADDA.8E51C1D0@palladion.com>
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I was interested in using Oracle's Advanced Queuing (AQ), specifically the
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asynchronous event notification features.
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Thanks
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In article <3729ADDA.8E51C1D0 at palladion.com>,
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Tres Seaver <tseaver at palladion.com> wrote:
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> Jeffrey Chang wrote:
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> >
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> > > If anyone has experience writing applications directly to the Oracle Call
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> > > Interface (OCI), in Python or JPython please send me examples or
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references on
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> > > how to do it.
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> >
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> > Yuck! What are you planning to do? Do you really really need to write
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> > directly to the OCI or can you use one of the available Oracle extension
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> > modules?
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> >
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> > About a year ago, I used the oracledb module from Digital Creations with
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> > Oracle7. It's very nice, but not optimized, and thus slow for large
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> > queries. Since then, Digital Creations has made DCOracle
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> > (http://www.digicool.com/DCOracle/; their commercial extension module)
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> > open source, so I guess that will replace oracledb. I haven't looked at
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> > it, but according to the FAQ, it's "much faster."
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> >
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> > I strongly advise you to use an extension module or JDBC if at all
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> > possible. Writing to the OCI is extremely ugly -- all the stuff we try to
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> > avoid by using python!
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>
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> ODBC/JDBC solutions suffer from "least-common-denominator" symptom; one can't
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> easily exploit Oracleisms. I haven't played with DCOracle yet, but wrapping
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OCI
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> into a nice Pythonic package would be a big win in some situations (passing
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> array parameters to stored procedures is the one I most often want).
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>
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> --
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> =========================================================
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> Tres Seaver tseaver at palladion.com 713-523-6582
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> Palladion Software http://www.palladion.com
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>
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