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I hate that you have to install the Oracle Client, which is its' own byzantine exercise in frustration to use an application that talks to Oracle. Most other d

I hate that you have to install the Oracle Client, which is its' own byzantine exercise in frustration to use an application that talks to Oracle. Most other databases, the application includes a library that communicates to the DB via a protocol implementation... Oracle doesn't want this kind of use case.

orthoxerox 5y ago
There are rather usable clients for Java and .Net that do not require that. Well, the .Net one silently converts async calls to sync, but Oracle wouldn't be Oracle without nasty surprises.