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Resolved Does Oracle interface PBO10.dll work with Oracle 19c ?

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  1. sebastien lietart
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  3. Wednesday, 16 February 2022 14:01 PM UTC

PB 2019 R3 build 2703

Old Database Oracle 10g

New Database Oracle 19c

 

We have to change our database application to the new Database Oracle 19 c (before it was Oracle 10g).

Does we have to change to the new Oracle interface (PBORA.dll) as it mentionned  in https://docs.appeon.com/pb2019r3/connecting_to_your_database/Using_Oracle.html#XREF_86815_ORA_driver_support ? 

Because the old interface seems to work fine too (PBO10.dll)  and i must change all my app params if i had to change to PBORA.dll ?

 

 

thanks

Sébastien

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John Fauss
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  1. Wednesday, 16 February 2022 15:06 PM UTC
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Do you HAVE to? Possibly not. SHOULD you? Yes.

The "O10" database interface may work with versions of Oracle later than 10, but it is not officially supported. You should use the "ORA" database interface for Oracle 11g, 12c, 18c and 19c, according to the following documentation:

https://docs.appeon.com/pb2021/connecting_to_your_database/XREF_51200_CHAPTER_10_Using.html#XREF_11471_Supported_versions

The ORA database interface was introduced in PB 11.5, circa 2008, for Oracle 11g.

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Roland Smith
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  1. Wednesday, 16 February 2022 15:03 PM UTC
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The PB database driver (PBORA.DLL or PBO10.DLL) talks to Oracle Client, not directly to the database server.

If you want to stay with O10, you also have to keep the current version of Oracle Client. This might prevent the application from using new datatypes or SQL functions.

You would be better off switching to ORA and installing the Oracle Client that is designed for Oracle 19c. I'm not an Oracle expert so I can't say for sure but I don't think you have to upgrade the PB driver and Oracle Client right away. You'll have to test that.

 

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