The Oracle Client .NET Data Provider

The .NET Framework also includes a .NET data provider designed to communicate with Oracle databases. The Oracle Client .NET Data Provider interacts with Oracle databases using Oracle’s client API, commonly referred to as OCI.

The Oracle Client .NET Data Provider requires that you have Oracle’s client components installed on your machine. Oracle offers a wide range of installation options for their client layer. For more information on these options, see Oracle’s Web site.

The Oracle Client .NET Data Provider that is included in version 2.0 of the .NET Framework was tested extensively against 32- and 64-bit versions of both Release 1 and Release 2 of Oracle 10g databases, as well as both Release 1 and Release ...

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