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Linux Software for Oracle

By SUSE: orarun

This package sets Oracle environment variables for each user, like ORACLE_HOME and PATH; sets the recommended kernel parameters, e.g. SHMMAX and provides for automated start/stop of Oracle at system start/stop. orarun

orarun.rpm for SLES-9
orarun.rpm for SLES-8
orarun.rpm for SL 8.0 and greater

TOra - Toolkit for Oracle (GUI Frontend)

TOra is a Toolkit for Oracle which aims to help the DBA or developer of database application. Features PL/SQL debugger, SQL worksheet with syntax highlighting, DB browser and a comprehensive set of DBA tools. SLES-8 packages: Download TOra 1.2.4 | TOra 1.3.8-alpha

SQL Developer (Java SQL development IDE)

SQL Developer is a SQL administration and development frontend with a graphical user interface. It is written completely in Java (TM) and runs on virtual machines supporting Java (TM) 1.3 or higher.

FailSafe (HA)

FailSafe is a High Availability solution from SGI. SUSE has partnered with SGI to release FailSafe under GPL to the Linux community. Linux FailSafe is architected to scale up to 16 nodes in a cluster with the cluster members sharing storage. Linux FailSafe and shared storage allows multiple servers to assume control of data in the event of a failure. At the point of failure, applications are resumed on the remaining system(s) and filesystems are automatically made available to their applications.

Freshmeat Search for "Oracle"

Freshmeat.net is an excellent source to find Linux software. This link takes you to a search for "Oracle" in the Freshmeat Linux software database It contains all of the above programs, among other valuable titles.

Accessing Oracle Databases from Perl, PHP, C, etc. (Programming)

For virtually all script languages there is an interface for accessing Oracle databases. There are modules for Perl, PHP and PHP4 (popular Web scripting language, part of SUSEs Apache package), which can be compiled to support Oracle. Oracle supports C/C++ (Oracle offers Pro C/C++ for embedded SQL, or you can do OCI calls directly). There are also Python and Tcl/Tk modules available for Oracle. See the documentation and websites for information on how to enable Oracle access for individual scripting languages. Oracle has programming samples as part of the installation (if selected) and on their websites.