System Requirements

Oracle Data Provider for .NET requires the following:

• Microsoft .NET Framework 1.0 or higher.

• Windows NT, Windows XP, Windows 2000, or Windows Server 2003.

• Access to Oracle8i Database release 3 (8.1.7) or higher.

• Oracle Client release 10.1 or higher and Net Services (included with ODP.NET Software).

Additional requirements:

• Applications using Microsoft Enterprise Services transactions require Oracle Services for Microsoft Transaction Server release 10.1.

• OracleXmlStream and OracleXmlType classes require Oracle9i Database release 2 (9.2) or higher.

• Applications using OracleXmlStream and OracleXmlType classes with schema-based XMLType require Oracle Database 10g.

• For database releases 8.1.7 and 9.0.1 only: To provide XML support, the following OracleCommand methods, require Oracle XML Developer's Kit (Oracle XDK) release 9.2 or higher to be installed on the database. Oracle XDK can be downloaded from Oracle Technology Network (OTN).

  • ExecuteStream

  • ExecuteToStream

  • ExecuteXmlReader

  • ExecuteNonQuery