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Contents

Title and Copyright Information

Preface

• Audience
• Documentation Accessibility
• Related Documentation
• Command Syntax
• Typographic Conventions

1 Overview of Oracle Database Instant Client Installation

• Planning Your Installation
• Installation Considerations
• Oracle Database Instant Client Installation Types
• Oracle Database Instant Client and Oracle Database Interoperability
• Simplified Patching of Timestamp with Time Zone Data Type

2 Oracle Database Instant Client Preinstallation Tasks

• Checking the Hardware Requirements
  • Memory Requirements
  • System Architecture
  • Disk Space Requirements
• Checking the Software Requirements
  • Instant Client Light Requirements

3 Installing and Removing Oracle Database Instant Client

• Downloading and Installing the Oracle Database Instant Client Software
• Removing the Oracle Database Instant Client Software

4 Oracle Database Instant Client Postinstallation Tasks

• Using Oracle Database Instant Client
• Recommended Postinstallation Tasks
  • Connecting Instant Client or Instant Client Light to an Oracle Database
    • Specifying a Connection by Using the Easy Connect Naming Method
    • Specifying a Connection Using an Empty Connect String and TWO_TASK
  • Setting the NLS_LANG Environment Variable
  • Updating Instant Client
• Required Product-Specific Postinstallation Tasks
  • Configuring Oracle Precompilers
    • Configuring Pro*C/C++

Index