Installing Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

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Oracle Call Interface is part of Oracle Instant Client, which is necessary download its archive from the manufacturer's site – Oracle (http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/winx64soft-089540.html). When downloading, select the Basic version (the version BasicLite does not provide the necessary work with the national encodings) and the bit depth Oracle Instant Client is x64. You may need to register on the site for download.

The contents of the received archive should be unpacked to the hard disk.

Then you need to add the path to the directory in which the operating system's PATH environment variable is to be added to the directory where the libraries Oracle Instant Client will be located after the archive is unpacked, and in particular the library oci.dll.