For "What you always wanted to know, but never dared to ask about Oracle 11g Release 2…", come and attend our technical session on 29th of September during the "AMIS Query – Technical Introduction of Oracle Database 11g Release 2".

Mac OS X Snow Leopard is out and many Rubyists are rushing to upgrade to it. The main difference for Ruby after upgrading to Snow Leopard is that Ruby installation has been changed from 32-bit to 64-bit program and version has changed from 1.8.6 to 1.8.7. And it means that all Ruby gems with C extensions should be reinstalled and recompiled using 64-bit external libraries.

This is a follow-on post to the "Getting Started with OCCI (Linux Version)" and "Getting Started with OCCI (Windows Version)" posts. In the previous post on getting started with OCCI on Linux, I illustrated using the .zip file method of installing the Oracle Instant Client software.

As my legion of dedicated readers know, I’m an 64 Bit zealot.  I would love to see a Windows task manager free of *32.  It keeps me up at night…well not really but, whatever.

Oracle 11g Instant Client is the easiest way to connect PHP to a remote Oracle database. This notes describes how to install PHP with the OCI8 Extension and Oracle Instant Client on Windows and Linux. The free The Underground PHP and Oracle Manual contains more detail and explains other installation options.