PHP and Oracle: Christopher Jones

cx_Oracle 5.1 for Python is Available

cj — Tue, 29 Mar 2011 19:21:52 -0500

Anthony Tuininga has released the cx_Oracle 5.1 extension for Python. His announcement email has the details: http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-announce-list/2011-March/008876.html.

Fast In-Memory Caching with JRuby & Jython Using Oracle Coherence

cj — Mon, 6 Dec 2010 10:27:24 -0600

My Aussie colleage Pas Apicella has been evaluating JRuby & Jython. One test was using them to access Oracle Coherence, a "replicated and distributed (partitioned) data management and caching services on top of a reliable, highly scalable peer-to-peer clustering protocol.". He blogged and shows code samples here.

cx_Oracle 5.0.4 Python driver for Oracle Database Released

cj — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 08:24:05 -0500

Anthony Tuininga has released the cx_Oracle 5.0.4 Python driver for Oracle Database.

Details are in his Sourceforge mail announcement.

Python and Ruby in Oracle Tuxedo

cj — Tue, 18 May 2010 21:53:29 -0500

Did you know you can now develop services and applications in Python or Ruby with Oracle Tuxedo? The Tuxedo team have a blog post about it at Python and Ruby in Tuxedo. I used to think of Tuxedo as a Transaction Processing Monitor but it has evolved into much more.

PyOhio - Python in Ohio, 25 & 26 July 2009

cj — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 09:29:41 -0500

PyOhio "The Free Ohio-based Python Miniconference" is on Saturday & Sunday July 25-26 at Ohio State University. On Sunday Catherine Devlin and Oracle Technology Network's Todd Trichler will have an Oracle/Python/Linux Tutorial. This will have something interesting for everyone. Even if you don't want to attend the tutorial fulltime, you can jump in for the bits important to you.

Want to learn more about Python and Oracle, or ask questions about best Python practices - then attend Catherine's Python section and ask questions. Want to know what Oracle database is about to understand its possibilities - then attend the installation part. Want to learn more about Linux and Virtualization - Todd is great on this.

Wish I was going. Send me a postcard!

Python cx_Oracle gets Database Change Notification Support

cj — Thu, 8 Jan 2009 14:58:03 -0600

Python's cx_Oracle gets Database Change Notification Support.

New Python cx_Oracle 5.0

cj — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 23:45:53 -0600

Now that Python 3000 has been released, Anthony Tuininga has announced cx_Oracle 5.0, the latest version of the extension for Oracle Database access. His announcement email contains all the details.

Among the new features, it support Oracle 11g Connection Pooling (DRCP) fully now and allows the connection class to be set. This enables maximum reuse of the Oracle pooled server processes by applications.

Python cx_Oracle 4.4.1 Released

cj — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 10:42:12 -0500

Anthony Tuinga's released cx_Oracle 4.4.1 yesterday: http://cx-oracle.sourceforge.net/. Changes are here.

OraPIG - Oracle Python Interface Generator Announced

cj — Mon, 9 Jun 2008 17:52:57 -0500

Mark Harrison, from Pixar Animation Studios, recently announced the first release of "OraPig", which creates Python interfaces for PL/SQL packages. The documentation is a good place to get an overview: http://www.markharrison.net/orapig/

The project itself is hosted at http://code.google.com/p/orapig/

cx_Oracle 4.3.3 for Python is out

cj — Thu, 4 Oct 2007 16:02:32 -0500

The cx_Oracle 4.3.3 extension module for Python was released on Tuesday. It is available on Sourceforge. Source and RPMs for various versions of Python and Oracle are available. This is the first release that is available with 11g support (though, of course, Oracle clients and databases of different releases can connect to each other).

Scripting for Documentation

cj — Thu, 26 Apr 2007 12:26:55 -0500

On his blog tahitiviews.blogspot.com, John Russell has posted a couple of exploratory articles on Python and Perl comparing them with PL/SQL. The observant person might recall that tahiti.oracle.com is a front page to Oracle's Database, Application Server and Collaboration Suite documentation. John does a lot of scripting magic with an ever changing set of manuals to build up an excellent online documentation system.