[PHP-DEV] OT: oracle is listening;-)))) From: Thies C. Arntzen (thies <email protected>)
Date: 04/30/99

thats a weird one:

i've send a question to the oracle technet - and this guy replyed
to me.. so we send some mail forward and back - an he basiclly offered his
help with some of the "weird" stuff... so far - so good...

i went to some OCI seminar in munich on wednesday, and there this indian
guy turned up and asked me if i'm the same "thies arntzen" (after i signed
in) and introduced himself as the person who send me mail... i asked him
if he lives in germany, and he said he's from the states.. so far so good
....

when the semiar started i found out, he's the guy why DOES the seminar,
and he introduced himself as the "project and develoment manager of the
OCI team at oracle" -> so i got in contact with the guy who actually
designes this stuff, and he seems to be nice, AND is willing to share his
expertise and help out in some areas.

so i'm pretty sure that i'm going to get some more infos on the poorly
documented transaction mechanism in oci, as well as some "higher"
NLS-support....

BTW: oracle is obviously thinking to write drivers for other DB and
present then thru OCI -> like ODBC does.... (i dont know if, or when this
is going to happen...)....

tc

Thies C. Arntzen "One Big-Mac, Small Fries and a Coke!"
Digital Collections Phone +49 40 235350 Fax +49 40 23535180
Hammerbrookstr. 93 20097 Hamburg / Germany

---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Sat, 20 Mar 1999 13:06:10 -0800
From: Debashish Chatterjee
To: Thies C. Arntzen <thies <email protected>>
Subject: [PHP-DEV] Re: OCI stuff...

Sure I would like to down load the stuff and help you build the code for
the php3. So keep asking me questions, and you will get all the answers. I
will have linux installed soon. I will be monitoring the technet too, and
you will soon see all clientserver/oci related qs to have lots of quick
resolutions.

However a quicker way could be to mail me the files implementing or_logon
and log0ff. I will edit them and send it back to you for trial ......

-debu chatterjee (kushal is my pseudonym for technet)

----------
> From: Thies C. Arntzen <thies <email protected>>
> Subject: OCI stuff...
> Date: Friday, March 19, 1999 12:27 PM
>
> hi, thanx for your answer....
>
>
> i'm currently working on the oci8 "native" interface for php3
> (www.php.net). php is a server side scripting engine (runs as an apache
> module), which is worth checking out!!! (i've also written some docs for
> the oci8 module - on www.php.net as well;-)
>
> the oci8 module so far has:
>
> - pretty good binding support
> - suppport for user-level defines (not only implicit defines like modt
> scripting languages....)
> - support for blobs/clobs/bfiles etc...
> - all the defining binding is done via oci8 callbacks (OCIDefineDynamic,
> OCIBindDynamic....)
>
> what's missing now is support for persistent connections, so that we get
> better/faster connect times (in fact no connect is needed if we can
> reuse a previous connection from some kind of pool).
>
> i do believe i understand some (not all) of the oci8 concepts, but now i
> NEED the help of somebody who's been working deeper with oci (i started
> 2 month ago...)...
>
>
> so if you're interested we could discuss this further....
>
> my experince (quantify says) shows that 50% of the time is spend in
> OCIAttachServer and the other half in OCISessionBegin - so in an ideal
> world i would cache the result of OCISessionBegin (which automaticly
> includes my server-connection) - but than i would have to make sure that
> i clear all open transactions for the session before i reuse it...
> that's where i'm stuck.
>
> you can download my current sources (together with the rest of php3)
> either via ftp (ftp.php.net) or, the newest version via CVS (docs on how
> to do that on www.php.net)...
>
> there is some new/right now unused, code for persistent connections in
> there.....
>
> please contact me if you can afford some time for discussion.....
>
> regards,
> tc
>
> PS: i'm leaving technet.orace.com now, 'cause i do'n read it all the
> time, and i can not cc stuf to somewhere else...
>
> 

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