Oracle 19c Instant Client Download For Windows 64 Bit

[Kenneth]

Theinstantclient works only by defining the folder in the windows PATH environment variable. But you can "install" manually to create some keys in the Windows registry. How?

I was able to setup Oracle Instant Client (Basic) 11g2 and Oracle ODBC (32bit) drivers on my 32bit Windows 7 PC. Note: you'll need a 'tnsnames.ora' file because it doesn't come with one. You can Google examples and copy/paste into a text file, change the parameters for your environment.

Note: The "un-documented" things that were hanging me up where...

- All files (Client and Drivers) needed to be in the same folder (nothing in sub-folders).

- Running the ODBC driver from the command prompt will allow you to see if it installs successfully. Double-clicking the installer just flashed a box on the screen, no idea it was failing because no error dialog.

If you want to use SQL Server Management Studio, you want to install the full Oracle client, not the Instant Client. The full Oracle client is on the same download page as the Oracle database. Assuming that you are installing on a 64-bit version of Windows, I expect you want the "Oracle Database 11g Release 2 Client (11.2.0.1.0) for Microsoft Windows (x64)" download. This is several hundred MB rather than a couple of MB for the Instant Client.

Introduction

Previous Tech Notes (TNSQ0010 & TNSQ0010a) have described installation of Oracle Instant Client for Mac OSX. Allowing for operating system differences, the installation process for Windows is essentially the same:

Download Instant Client

Oracle Instant Client can be downloaded from www.oracle.com. You can use any of the Instant Client packages listed for your platform provided that they support OCI applications. We recommend Instant Client Basic or Instant Client Basic Lite. You may need to create a free Oracle account if you do not already have one.

Extract files from zip Archive

Once downloaded, create a folder on your local filesystem and open the zip archive. Drag all files from the zip archive and place them into the newly created folder:

Configure tnsnames.ora

Create (or copy) a text file named tnsnames.ora in the location specified by TNS_ADMIN. Existing users of Oracle clientware will be familiar with the formatting requirements of the tnsnames.ora file. In summary, each logon hostname that you define should be formatted as follows:

In the above example, ORA11 will be the logon hostname, and the database service name is 'orcl' (an often-used default name). The port and ip-address should point to your Oracle database server which should be configured to accept the tnsnames naming method.

Verify Connection Settings

When you open Omnis Studio, verify that the Oracle DAM has loaded by looking in the Omnis trace log. If an error indicates that the Oracle DAM could not be loaded, verify the earlier modification to the PATH environment variable is in place. (PATH needs to include the folder containing oci.dll).

I have an old 32-bit software program that connects to an Oracle database but only works with the Microsoft ODBC driver for Oracle. It does not work with the more up-to-date native Oracle ODBC driver.

For clarification, the C:\oracle\instantclient32_12_1 directory I specified contains files like oci.dll and ociw32.dll and belonged to the 32-bit Instant Client install. I guess it doesn't matter for 64-bit, since there is no Microsoft ODBC 64-bit client.

I downloaded the instant client 12.1 installed to d:\instantclient_12_1. Changed path and added TNS_ADMIN. I went to DOS prompt and entered in SQLPLUS it worked but TOAD cannot find the oracle home. Thanks in advance for any help. BTW running Windows 8

I have the same issue on a new installation of Toad 13.0.0.80 (64-bit)on a new laptop - is the Instant Client installed as part of the Toad installation.? On the old laptop I have the 64 bit Instant Client installed. My message on the new laptop is no Oracle client found - it is 64-bit Toad for Oracle version.

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Does the ESRI download page include an Oracle Instant Client install? I seem to recall there was a database support folder (with an Oracle Instant Client download) on the download page some time ago, but I cannot seem to find it now.

You should be installing the 32 bit client if you are trying to connect from Desktop. If you are trying to connect from Pro or Server you need the 64-bit client. I usually install the Oracle full client and run the installer with the default settings.

All of the client database drivers that I can think of are free and directly available from the DBMS companies themselves. It isn't a very strong argument for excluding Oracle downloads, there has to be more behind the story. Otherwise, they should simply stop providing any client database drivers for download.

There was something on the Oracle side, if I remember correctly (not an official stance) based on when the removal happened (over 2 years ago), that was causing issues with us providing the client downloads. Esri decided since Oracle provided them, that was the best way to move forward. Also the download from the Oracle site is probably more up-to-date than the ones that were in MyEsri at the time.

Has anyone actually downloaded the instant client from the Oracle site. Since I am working on a 64-bit Windows machine running against an 11.2.0.3.0 database, I tried downloading oracle-instantclient11.2-basiclite-11.2.0.3.0-1.x86_64.rpm file that Oracle provides. I have never worked with an rpm file so I googled how to use (extract) files and I was directed to 7zip and WinZip and I was able to extract a cpio file but that is a far as I can get.

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