Oracle LOB in Symfony2 mit OCI-Lob Klasse nutzbar zu machen, ist nicht ganz einfach. Unter anderem die Unterstützung von Large Objects (LOB) hat in Doctrine2 einige Fallstricke, z.B. das Cachen von Queries, welches nicht ganz so optimal mit php_streams umgehen kann. Hier will ich aber auf die Probleme bei der Benutzung des Oracle OCI8 Drivers…
Schlagwort: oracle
Everybody can fork MySQL. But what about market penetration?
When I talked with journalists, lawyers and analysts about the Oracle/Sun merger case questions were raised about the possibility to fork MySQL and that everybody who is not satisfied with Oracle’s future way regarding MySQL could do this. I don’t agree with that and I think it’s best to put Monty’s own words (found in…
Oracle/MySQL – Project Peter – Monty’s dreams for BSD license
These are tough days in the case of the Oracle/MySQL decision the EU faces. First of all, the lobbyists of Oracle achieved that the decision deadline will be extended from January, 19th to January, 27th 2010. Secondly, Monty recommended that a license change from GPL to BSD would be a great idea for MySQL’s future.…
EU to probe Oracle Sun deal
According to Yahoo News (and WSJ, only for subscribers – thanks to @Oswald for mentioning it on twitter, see also Reuters), the EU opens an in-depth probe to the Oracle-Sun deal. According to the source, EU Competition Commisioner Neelie Kroes said: „The (European) Commission has an obligation to ensure that customers would not face…
PHP5 und Oracle
Gestern war ich zu Gast bei der DOAG Regionalgruppe Rhein-Main, um etwas über „PHP5 und Oracle“ zu erzählen. Der Vortrag richtete sich an DBAs, für die die Webwelt eine recht neue Welt ist und zeigt auf, warum gerade PHP eine passende Sprache für (businesskritische) Webanwendungen ist und weshalb PHP5 (seit einigen Jahren) auch sehr gut…
What will be the future of MySQL against the backdrop of the Oracle acquisition?
The German Oracle User Association (DOAG e.V.) has published a statement (in German) about the acquisition of Sun/MySQL by Oracle and its impact for Oracle users. You can find the statement here. Oh and btw, I’ll give a session about „PHP5 & Oracle“ at the local Oracle usergroups in Frankfurt on June, 23rd and…
Oracle with PHP and PDO
A few weeks ago, I was holding a PHP training for a customer who’s using the Oracle database on a regular basis. My boss and I agreed on teaching the Oracle database connection with PDO (instead of the MySQL database connection we usually teach in trainings).