Oracle 10 / Pro*C

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danr_18@yahoo.com - 31 Mar 2006 17:42 GMT

I want to do some Pro*C at home (personal use only).

I downloaded the free Oracle 10 Express Edition and
it seems to only support OCI. Is there a way to
get Pro*C for Oracle 10? Is there a free or inexpensive way to get
Oracle / Pro*C from an earlier version of Oracle?

I posted a message on an Oracle forum yesterday --- it has had 11
reads, but no replies. Oracle Support is for service contract holders
and I don't know whom else I could call at Oracle.

Any advice would be helpful.

Thank you!

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Volker Hetzer - 31 Mar 2006 17:51 GMT

danr_18@yahoo.com schrieb:

> I want to do some Pro*C at home (personal use only).
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> Any advice would be helpful.

Think about whether you really want to go the OCI way. It's got the
steepest learning curve of all APIs.
Are you on windows? Use OO4O or .NET.
Are you on unix? Use a scripting language like Tcl and its oracle
connectivity.

There's the java interface too and you can use odbc as well.

Unless your needs are very special, OCI is a huge overkill.

Lots of Greetings!
Volker

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danr_18@yahoo.com - 31 Mar 2006 19:04 GMT

Thanks.

Right now, I don't want to use OCI, I want to use Pro*C, to use with C
code.

> danr_18@yahoo.com schrieb:
> > I want to do some Pro*C at home (personal use only).

> Think about whether you really want to go the OCI way. It's got the
> steepest learning curve of all APIs.

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Volker Hetzer - 31 Mar 2006 19:56 GMT

danr_18@yahoo.com schrieb:

> Thanks.
>
> Right now, I don't want to use OCI, I want to use Pro*C, to use with C
> code.

Sorry, anyway, ditto. Second steepest learning curve. And lots of
hard to debug macros.
What platform anyway?

Lots of Greetings!
Volker

>> danr_18@yahoo.com schrieb:
>>> I want to do some Pro*C at home (personal use only).
> <
>> Think about whether you really want to go the OCI way. It's got the
>> steepest learning curve of all APIs.

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Graham Wallace - 31 Mar 2006 20:01 GMT

> I want to do some Pro*C at home (personal use only).
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AFAIK Oracle XE does not run Pro*C. You would need to download the full
10g database.

Graham

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danr_18@yahoo.com - 31 Mar 2006 20:31 GMT

I called Oracle. It seems that 10g release 1 (not 2) was the last
release with Pro*C.

All Oracle database versions have a license where you can download it
for free for single, prototyping type use.

Thanks

> > I want to do some Pro*C at home (personal use only).
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> Graham

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