Registering Instant Client path

To install Instant Client in my windows2000 server PC I followed these instruction steps:
1. I have downloaded Instant Client Basic
2. unzipped files to c:\Ora_instacli directory. The files in this directory are two .jar files and some .dll files
Step 3 says " Set the library loading path in your environment to the directory in Step 2". What are the correct steps to do this?
I have a directory c:\program files\oracle with Inventory,jre and oui folders inside it, installed sometime ago. Must I delete it?. I deleted c:\OraHome1 and changed the registry entries pointed to this to point to Ora_instacli.

We have a system which uses OCCI to connect to a
database. The database connection is optional for the
system. As it is an optional module, we didn't want
our clients to install something on their OS which is
only needed by our system. Therefore, we thought that
distributing the occi instant client would be a good
solution. We deliver the libraries which are provided
by the instant client along with our application. The
libraries and the executable are in the same
directory so that the application can access those
dlls. This is sufficient if there is no oracle client
installed on the system.
But if there is already an oracle client
installation, things get somehow mixed. I found out
that even if I uninstall the existing oracle client,
there will be some registry entries used.
This is why I asked for the possibility to use the
instant client parallel to the existing installation.
If you could provide me the things to be considered,
that would be really great.I see. I'll try to compile a list of problems we encountered and things to consider, but it might not be a complete list and I take no responsibility :^)
The following assumes that we are on Windows.
- Make sure that only one client is in the PATH environment variable. There is a bug (fixed, I think, in 10.2.0.3) that may cause a mix of shared libraries from both clients to be loaded if both are in the PATH.
- If you want to run the instant client, make sure that no Oracle environment variables are set except for TNS_ADMIN and maybe LDAP_ADMIN or any of the NLS_* variables. Do not set ORACLE_HOME, ORACLE_SID and the like.
- Make sure there is no "oracle.key" file in your Instant Client directory.
In your case, you could modify the environment before you start Oracle Instant Client and make sure that PATH does not include another Oracle client.
Yours,
Laurenz Albe

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Hi,
I developed a simple utility which uses OCCI LIB from 10g release. I'm deploying it with Oracle Instant Client lite libraries.
Everything works fine when tnsnames.ora is present in the same dir. When I move it somewhere else and set TNS_ADMIN to that directory, it doesn't work anymore:
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rgds

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I just spent 10 hours attempting to connect Web Developer Express 2010 to an Oracle 10g database. In the end the solution was beyond simple, but with the existing threads there is a lot of talking around the problem. I’m posting this in case it might help someone else.
Obtain the Oracle instant client software that will work for your database. You will only need the basic package.
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/database/features/instant-client/index-100365.html
Extract the contents to a temp location on your hard disk
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(CONNECT_DATA =
(SERVER = DEDICATED)
(SERVICE_NAME = <Your database instance>)
It’s a good idea to restart your system after this installation.
In web developer express use the .NET Framework Data Provider for OLE DB.
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Obtain the Oracle instant client software that will work for your database. You will only need the basic package.
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/database/features/instant-client/index-100365.html
Extract the contents to a temp location on your hard disk
Create a directory for the application – it could be anything, but here is what I used
C:\instantclient
Copy the extracted files into the directory you just created.
Right click on my computer and choose properties
Under advanced and environment variables you will need to add the directory you created above to the system variables PATH. You will need to create a new system variable called TNS_ADMIN and put the same c:\instantclient path in it.
Create the file tnsnames.ora under the c:\instantclient directory and put your customized entry in it. Below is an example.
tnsnams.ora file contents
<Alias for this tnsnames entry> =
(DESCRIPTION =
(ADDRESS = (PROTOCOL = TCP)(HOST = <Your Oracle Server>)(PORT = 1521))
(CONNECT_DATA =
(SERVER = DEDICATED)
(SERVICE_NAME = <Your database instance>)
It’s a good idea to restart your system after this installation.
In web developer express use the .NET Framework Data Provider for OLE DB.
Here is the key piece of information!!
Under server name you need to use the alias from the tnsnames.ora file entry. If you do not do this it will not pick up the SERVICE_NAME parm and will give you some goofy error like:
ORA-12514: TNS:listener could not resolve SERVICE_NAME given in connect descriptor
or
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Instant Client on 64-bit Windows 7: Driver does not appear in System DSN

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Windows 7 64 Bit machine with Instant Client and 32Bit application

Hello everybody,
the last days a tried to get a 32Bit application to run on a Windows 7 SP1 64 Bit machine ... unfortunately with no success. The application runs on XP Pro and Vista Pro 32 Bit machines against a 11g RDBMS for years. As a refenence we use SQLTools from sqltools.net. It has nearly the same behaviour like the application, because it is a 32 bit application too.
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XE was the last installed Oracle product. I installed it on my development laptop, so I can use an Oracle database when not connected to the company network.
The instant client was broken by the XE install. Uninstalling Xe fixes this, even without a reboot.
The output of tnsping is:
TNS Ping Utility for 64-bit Windows: Version 11.2.0.2.0 - Production on 21-APR-2015 07:18:00
Copyright (c) 1997, 2014, Oracle. All rights reserved.
Message 3511 not found; No message file for product=NETWORK, facility=TNSTNS-03505: Message 3505 not found; No message file for prod
uct=NETWORK, facility=TNS
The Oracle related directories in the PATH environment variable are (in this order):
C:\Apps\OracleXE\app\oracle\product\11.2.0\server\bin
C:\Apps\Oracle\
C:\Apps\Oracle\bin\

Is my PHP + Oracle9i + Instant client setup ok ?

Hello
I have to developp a script in PHP for windows, using an Oracle 9i database.
Here's my setup :
Windows 2003 Server R2 (all patches applied)
PHP 5.2.0
Oracle 9i 9.2.0.1.1
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Oracle Instant client extracted to C:\dev\oracle\instantclient_10_2
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user541613

Thanks, now I understand better.
What is "Oracle Runtime"?
Did you install Instant Client from the Oracle Client CD or did you download Instant Client from http://www.oracle.com/technology/software/tech/oci/instantclient/index.html ?
Which version of Instant Client is this?
Can you show us the contents of your tnsnames.ora file?
Yours,
Laurenz Albe

Can't get instant client to work on Win XP

This is driving me nuts. I'm trying to get instantclient10_1 (10.1.0.4) to work reliably on Win XP so I can use it in deploying a Python app I'm writing. I have one XP system on which I have the instant client installed and working. By this I mean that it works with the appropriate of sqlplus. It also works with cx_Oracle. However, I do need to set ORACLE_HOME in order to achieve this (contra the documentation). I do not seem to need to set SQLPATH.
But I can't get it to work on any other system. I copy my instantclient10_1 directory over and use the same batch file that works on the "good" system, but I get "invalid or unknown NLS parameter value specified". I'm using a command of the form
sqlplus user_name/[email protected]:1521/db_name
I've also tried a "fresh" install on that machine. Same story. I've tried it on another machine as well. Same story. It only works on this one machine!
It actually took me quite a while to get it to work on that machine, involving installing and uninstalling the full client, the instant client, both, etc. But it does work there.
Another odd "feature": On the "good" machine, if I fail to set ORACLE_HOME, it errors and suggests I do this. On the "bad" machine, I just get the "invalid or unknown NLS" error.
There are other ORACLE directories on these machines (e.g., ORA17). But I get the same results if I hide these and take all reference to them out of environment variables.
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There's one more way that the previously-existing Oracle directories on the other machines might be tripping you up - with registry settings. In particular, the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\ORACLE\(some home)NLS_LANG registry key may be associated with the "invalid or unknown NLS parameter value specified" error you're getting.
Of course, the Instant Client isn't supposed to have to mess with the registry, so that makes me suspicious. And I got Instant Client SQL*PLUS on a clean XP machine to work without setting an ORACLE_HOME. All this makes me suspicious that some stuff from outside your Instant Client is being run. I know you said you cleaned your environment variables, but double-check that the other Oracle directories are out of your PATH.
If you have permission to, you might want to thoroughly scrub the old Oracles from the other machines (starting with running the Oracle Installer, then hand-cleaning the registry, the c:\Ora92 or whatever directory, and then c:\Program Files\Oracle). If you have MetaLink, Document 74790.1 is a dated but good guide to cleanly de-installing an old Oracle installation from Windows. It's much more difficult than it ought to be; sometimes it feels like an Oracle home is never truly gone. If you can't do that, perhaps save a copy of your registry and then temporarily rename HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\ORACLE to ORACLE_HIDDEN, or something - something to keep any existing registry settings from distracting your Instant Client.
Good luck!

Attempting to Run 'Instant Client' via XCode on Mac OS X (v10.4.6)

Environment: OS X (10.4.6) on G4.
The Setup:
I used 'Oracle Instant Client Installer' {http://www.kyngchaos.com/} to install the necessary Oracle libraries here:
[Users/oracle]ls /usr/local/oracle/lib
libclntsh.10.1.dylib* libclntsh.so@ libnnz10.dylib@ libocci.dylib.10.1@ libocijdbc.dylib@
libclntsh.dylib@ libnnz.10.dylib* libocci.10.1.dylib* libociei.dylib* libocijdbc10.dylib@
libclntsh.dylib.10.1@ libnnz.dylib@ libocci.dylib@ libocijdbc.10.dylib*
I've read that LD_LIBRARY_PATH is rather "archaic" for the Mac OS X vs a directory of dylibs accessable directly from XCode.
2) I set the XCode 2.2.1 Library search Path as:
USER_HEADER_SEARCH_PATHS = /usr/local/oracle/sdk/include
LIBRARY_SEARCH_PATHS = /usr/local/oracle/lib
==============
So my questions are:
1) How do I find the available APIs?
I've looked at an on-line example but don't know what I'm doing.
I saw some source-code demo on-line so I essentially cut/pasted the following code.
The following is what I've done within the NSApp's Delegate method:
#include "/usr/local/oracle/sdk/include/oci.h"
static OCIEnv *p_env;
static OCIError *p_err;
static OCISvcCtx *p_svc;
static OCIStmt *p_sql;
static OCIDefine p_dfn    = (OCIDefine ) 0;
static OCIBind p_bnd    = (OCIBind ) 0;
int p_bvi;
char p_sli[20];
int rc;
char errbuf[100];
int errcode;
@implementation AppDelegate
- (id)init {
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          (dvoid * (*)(dvoid *, dvoid *, size_t))0,
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                         (size_t) 0, (dvoid **) 0);
     NSLog(@"{Appdelegate} Init.");
     return self;
} // end init().
==============
What I get is:
test has exited due to signal 6 (SIGABRT).
[Session started at 2006-05-20 16:01:28 -0700.]
ZeroLink: unknown symbol '_OCIInitialize'
2) Am I on the right track or what am I doing wrong?
-- Oracle/OS X neopyte.
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Oraclle 11g instant client x64 doesn't work in windows 7 x64

First of all I've read the software requirements in the installation guides for 11g instant client x64 and no support for Windows 7 is mentioned.. I'm not sure if this is the case any how here is the details of the problem:
I downloaded instant client (basic) and (sqlplus) and unzipped them on drive E, afterwards I created tnsnames.ora file with the following:
ORCL =
(DESCRIPTION =
(ADDRESS = (PROTOCOL = TCP) (HOST = IGGY) (PORT = 1521))
(CONNECT_DATA =
(SERVER = DEDICATED)
(SERVICE_NAME = ORCL)
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Now the problem starts when I open MS-DOS and type: sqlplus system @ORCL, It then prompts for the password and when I try to enter anything the cursor doesn't move unless I press enter and the result is that I get the following error:
ORA-12154: TNS: COULD NOT RESOLVE THE CONNECT IDENTIFIER SPECIFIED
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Hello again,
I was able to reproduce ORA-12154 and the error raised beacause my DUMMY-HOST was not reachable. Using the correct hostname/IP address solved the issue. Can you check if you are able to ping and to telnet your hostname (IGGY).
Regards,
David
# Reproducing issue
E:\instantclient_11_1>sqlplus system/manager@//DUMMY-HOST:1521/PROD
SQL*Plus: Release 11.1.0.7.0 - Production on Fri Nov 27 10:37:54 2009
Copyright (c) 1982, 2008, Oracle. All rights reserved.
ERROR:
ORA-12154: TNS:could not resolve the connect identifier specified
Enter user-name:
# Hostname is not pingable
E:\instantclient_11_1>ping DUMMY-HOST
Ping request could not find host DUMMY-HOST. Please check the name and try again.
# Pinging host which is alive
E:\instantclient_11_1>ping stlin3p
Pinging stlin3p [192.168.1.123] with 32 bytes of data:
Reply from 192.168.1.123: bytes=32 time<1ms TTL=64
Reply from 192.168.1.123: bytes=32 time<1ms TTL=64
Reply from 192.168.1.123: bytes=32 time<1ms TTL=64
Reply from 192.168.1.123: bytes=32 time<1ms TTL=64
Ping statistics for 192.168.1.123:
Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 0ms, Maximum = 0ms, Average = 0ms
# Connecting to port 1521 at DUMMY-HOST fails as well
E:\instantclient_11_1>telnet DUMMY-HOST 1521
Connecting To DUMMY-HOST...Could not open connection to the host, on port 1521:
Connect failed
# Connecting to port 1521 at stlin3p is successful
E:\instantclient_11_1>telnet stlin3p 1521
... connected ...
# Content of tnsnames.ora
PROD =
DESCRIPTION =
ADDRESS = (PROTOCOL = TCP) (HOST = stlin3p) (PORT = 1521)
CONNECT_DATA =
(SERVER = DEDICATED)
(SERVICE_NAME = PROD)
# Connecting to DB server using TNS methods is successful
E:\instantclient_11_1>sqlplus system/manager@PROD
SQL*Plus: Release 11.1.0.7.0 - Production on Fri Nov 27 10:36:40 2009
Copyright (c) 1982, 2008, Oracle. All rights reserved.
Connected to:
Oracle Database 10g Release 10.2.0.4.0 - 64bit Production
SQL> exit
Disconnected from Oracle Database 10g Release 10.2.0.4.0 - 64bit Production
# Connecting to DB server using EZCONNECT is also successful
E:\instantclient_11_1>sqlplus system/manager@//stlin3p:1521/PROD
SQL*Plus: Release 11.1.0.7.0 - Production on Fri Nov 27 10:38:21 2009
Copyright (c) 1982, 2008, Oracle. All rights reserved.
Connected to:
Oracle Database 10g Release 10.2.0.4.0 - 64bit Production
SQL> exit
Disconnected from Oracle Database 10g Release 10.2.0.4.0 - 64bit Production

Imp Exp utility in ubuntu 10.4 with oracle instant client 10

Hi,
I have a problem with the imp/exp utility on Ubuntu 10.4.
I have installed the oracle instant client 10, and I have followed this thread
[http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/B25329_01/doc/admin.102/b25107/impexp.htm#CHDDBGDF]
So, I've set env variable in my .bashrc
ORACLE_HOME=/home/lucia/Programmi/instantclient10_1
export ORACLE_HOME
LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/home/lucia/Programmi/instantclient10_1:${LD_LIBRARY_PATH}
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH
PATH=/home/lucia/Programmi/instantclient10_1:${PATH}
export PATH
SQLPATH=/home/lucia/Programmi/instantclient10_1:${SQLPATH}
export SQLPATH
Sqlplus works fine, but when I try to use the utility exp/imp
exp DB_USER/DB_PW@DB_SCHEMA owner=DB_USER buffer=300000 LOG=DB_USER.log FILE=DB_USER.dmp compress=n
I have the following error:
No command 'exp' found, did you mean:
Command 'xep' from package 'pvm-examples' (universe)
Command 'ex' from package 'vim' (main)
Command 'ex' from package 'nvi' (universe)
Command 'ex' from package 'vim-nox' (universe)
Command 'ex' from package 'vim-gnome' (main)
Command 'ex' from package 'vim-tiny' (main)
Command 'ex' from package 'vim-gtk' (universe)
Command 'axp' from package 'axp' (universe)
Command 'expr' from package 'coreutils' (main)
Command 'expn' from package 'sendmail-base' (universe)
Command 'epp' from package 'e16' (universe)
exp: command not found
(I cannot use data pump exp)
Any suggestions?
thanks in advance.
Lucia

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LuciaHello,
I had the same problem. It was related to the shell script interpreter being used: it is really a bash script asking to be interpreted as sh. For the impatient, the solution was to change the first line of the script orarun.sh to read as:
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Explanation:
1. The script runfixup.sh calls orarun.sh. The latter is the one that fails starting at line 845.
2. The script is really a bash script as can be seen from the if syntax used. For example at line 191 we see the double equall sign ==:
if [ "`echo $SET_KERNEL_PARAMETERS | tr A-Z a-z`" == "true" ]
3. The bash man page says:
string1 == string2
string1 = string2
True if the strings are equal. = should be used with the test command for POSIX conformance.
string1 != string2
True if the strings are not equal.
(End of man page excerpt)
Notice in particular that for a bash script to be POSIX it should avoid the == and just use =
4. orarun.sh has on its first line #!/bin/sh. On my Ubuntu system, sh is a softlink to dash and the dash man page says:
s1 = s2 True if the strings s1 and s2 are identical.
s1 != s2 True if the strings s1 and s2 are not identical.
5. So this script script uses bash syntax but is interpreted by dash. It is possible that this worked fine for the Oracle developer if on their system sh was softlinked to bash (which is often the case). Apparently, one should then be very careful to not use idioms that are not POSIX compliant.
6. Another solution is to change the /bin/sh softlink from dash to bash. Personally, I was less comfortable doing this (the possible repercussions were wider than the proposed solution above).
After making the change, the script ran perfectly. I think the best solution is for Oracle to update the script to be POSIX compliant or to identify itself as bash.
Hope that helped,
Mark Gaber
Edited by: user1112514 on Jun 30, 2010 3:28 AM

10g instant client "Zero Sized Response"

tried to get instant clients for sol64bit, sol32bit, AIX64bit.
all give:
ERROR
The requested URL could not be retrieved
While trying to retrieve the URL: http://download-uk.oracle.com/otn/solaris/instantclient/instantclient-basic-solaris32-10.1.0.3.zip
The following error was encountered:
* Zero Sized Reply
Squid did not receive any data for this request.
Your cache administrator is [email protected]
Generated Mon, 29 Nov 2004 15:19:47 GMT by undertow.inchinnan.grahamtech.co.uk (squid/2.5.STABLE1)

Custom client is the path we chose. This is because you cannot upgrade the Instant client (thanks from another post).

OCIEnvNlsCreate():Oracle Instant Client libraries

Pls help solve this error:
[Mon Feb 18 13:45:14 2008] [error] [client 0.0.0.0] PHP Warning: oci_connect() [function.oci-connect]: OCIEnvNlsCreate() failed. There is something wrong with your system - please check that PATH includes the directory with Oracle Instant Client libraries in C:\\EID_Web\\test.php on line 3
[Mon Feb 18 13:45:14 2008] [error] [client 0.0.0.0] PHP Warning: oci_close() expects parameter 1 to be resource, boolean given in C:\\EID_Web\\test.php on line 14
[Mon Feb 18 13:45:18 2008] [error] [client 0.0.0.0] PHP Warning: oci_connect() [function.oci-connect]: OCIEnvNlsCreate() failed. There is something wrong with your system - please check that PATH includes the directory with Oracle Instant Client libraries in C:\\EID_Web\\test.php on line 3
[Mon Feb 18 13:45:18 2008] [error] [client 0.0.0.0] PHP Warning: oci_close() expects parameter 1 to be resource, boolean given in C:\\EID_Web\\test.php on line 14.
tried to change the path but still no changes.
this is what i use:
apache 2.2,oracle server 10g ,instant client 10g, windows 2000,php 5.2
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tamse

Make sure that you have only one Oracle Client on the client machine.
Delete/uninstall all others. Best uninstall all Oracle Software on that machine and reinstall one client.
Before you try to connect from a PHP script, try to connect with sqlplus. If that works, proceed.
The PHP you use must compiled and linked against the Oracle client version you use, else it won't work.
Now try again. If you still get the same errors, post the error messages and relevant parts of the PHP script.
Be aware that this forum is for Instant Client, so there might be better forums for PHP questions.
Yours,
Laurenz Albe

Registering Instant Client path

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