Oracle
  Instant Client

Free, light-weight and easily installed Oracle Database tools, libraries and SDKs for building and connecting client applications to local or remote Oracle Databases

New! Instant Client 12.2 is available on Windows, Linux, and Solaris

Oracle Instant Client enables development and production deployment of Oracle Database applications. It is used for popular languages and environments including Node.js, Python and PHP, as well as providing access for OCI, OCCI, JDBC-OCI, ODBC and Pro*C applications.

ISVs and Partners can benefit greatly from being able to bundle Instant Client in their applications.

Instant Client Downloads

Instant Client is provided under a separate Oracle Technology Network License Agreement that allows most licensees to download, redistribute, deploy in production environments, and provide third party training and instruction on the use of Oracle Instant Client, without charge. Please consult the license agreement and your legal department for clarification, if necessary.

Instant Client Packages

Instant Client Package

Description

References

Basic

All files required to run OCI, OCCI, ODBC, and JDBC-OCI applications for Oracle Database

OCI
OCCI
JDBC-OCI

Basic Light

Smaller version of the Basic package, with only English error messages and Unicode, ASCII, and Western European character set support

OCI
OCCI
JDBC-OCI

SDK

Additional header files and an example makefile for developing OCI and OCCI applications

  

SQL*Plus

Additional package providing the SQL*Plus command-line tool for executing SQL and PL/SQL statements and scripts

SQL*Plus

Tools

Additional tools including Data Pump, SQL*Loader and Workload Replay Client

Data Pump and SQL*Loader
WRC

ODBC

Additional libraries providing ODBC

ODBC

Precompilers

Additional tools and libraries providing the Pro*C and Pro*COBOL precompilers

Pro*C
Pro*COBOL

JDBC-OCI Supplement

Additional libraries to support Internationalization

JDBC-OCI

Instant Client Installation Overview

General Instant Client installation steps are:

  • 1. Download the desired Instant Client packages for your platform. All installations require either the Basic or Basic Light package.

  • 2. Unzip the packages into a single directory such as "instantclient_12_2".

  • 3. Set your environment's library loading path (for example LD_LIBRARY_PATH on Linux, or PATH on Windows) to the directory created in Step 2.

  • 4. Start your application.

Refer to any detailed instructions on the download page of your platform for more information.

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