System Requirements

Oracle Data Provider for .NET requires the following:

• Microsoft .NET Framework 1.0 or later.

  For .NET Framework 2.0-specific features, ODP.NET 10.2.0.2 or later is required.

• Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2003 R2, Windows 2000, or Windows XP.

  • On 32-bit Windows, Oracle supports Intel x86 and compatible processors. Oracle also supports AMD64 and Intel EM64T processors.

  • On Windows x64, Oracle supports 32-bit ODP.NET.

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

• Oracle Client release 10.2 or later and Oracle Net Services (included with ODP.NET Software).

Additional requirements are the following:

• Beginning with ODP.NET 10.2.0.2, two versions of the provider are available:

  • ODP.NET for .NET Framework 1.x

  • ODP.NET for .NET Framework 2.0

  ODP.NET for .NET Framework 1.x supports ADO.NET 1.x features only.

  ODP.NET for .NET Framework 2.0 supports both ADO.NET 1.x and ADO.NET 2.0 features. The API section of this guide indicates the .NET Framework requirement for each class, method, and property, in the class requirement sections and in the declarations.

• Applications using Microsoft Enterprise Services transactions require Oracle Services for Microsoft Transaction Server release 10.2.

• OracleXmlStream and OracleXmlType classes require access to Oracle9i Database release 2 (9.2) or later.

• Applications using OracleXmlStream and OracleXmlType classes with schema-based XMLType require access to Oracle Database 10g release 1 (10.1) or later.

• 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 later to be installed on the database. Oracle XDK can be downloaded from Oracle Technology Network (OTN).

  • ExecuteStream

  • ExecuteToStream

  • ExecuteXmlReader

  • ExecuteNonQuery