Oracle

Libraries

The Oracle back-end requires the Oracle OCI client library. (libclntsh.so). The location of this library is specified relative to the ORACLE_HOME value in the operating system environment. CLSQL has tested sucessfully using the client library from Oracle 9i and Oracle 10g server installations as well as Oracle's 10g Instant Client library.

Initialization

Use

(asdf:operate 'asdf:load-op 'clsql-oracle)
	

to load the Oracle back-end. The database type for the Oracle back-end is :oracle.

Connection Specification

Syntax of connection-spec

(global-name user password)

Description of connection-spec

global-name

String representing the global name of the Orace database. This is looked up through the tnsnames.ora file.

user

String representing the user name to use for authentication.

password

String representing the password to use for authentication..