I Need to Ask an Oracle Oracle.

[Steve Flyn]

Martin McCormick wrote:
> I figured out I need php5-cli for the interface. On the Oracle
> web site is a package called 
> instantclient-basic-linux32-10.2.0.3-20061115.zip
> and another called
> instantclient-sqlplus-linux32-10.2.0.3-20061115.zip

I'm the Oracle DBA for a small migration team. We're using AIX P550 
machines so I've never bothered with Oracle on Linux but I can tell you 
that the sqlplus package will effectively give you a shell with which 
you can issue SQL directly to the database server. You won't need it, 
but it'll be useful to have around. Install it anyway.

> Do I need them at all? 

Not needed but definitely useful.