Oracle Data Access Components (ODAC) 11.2.0.4.0

Installation Guide and Release Notes

Release 11.2.0.4.0 Production

January 2014

Copyright (c) Oracle Corporation 2014

This document provides information regarding the contents on the zip file and the steps required to setup Oracle Data Access Components into an Oracle Instant Client Home.

 

Notes & Information

1.  The files of this zip file is NOT to be installed on top of an existing Oracle Universal Installer (OUI) based Oracle Home installation.
   
   
2.  After unzipping the files, products must be installed and configured by executing the install.bat.
   
   

Installation Instructions

1. Download the ODAC (xcopy version) zip file to a directory for staging ODAC products.
   
   
2. Unzip ODAC (xcopy version) zip file to expand the contents.
   
   The following directories will be created:
   
   a) instantclient_11_2 - Oracle Instant Client
   
   b) ODP.NET20 - Oracle Data Provider for .NET 2
   c) ODP.NET4 - Oracle Data Provider for .NET 4
   d) ASP.NET - Oracle Providers for ASP.NET 2
   e) ASP.NET4 - Oracle Providers for ASP.NET 4
   f) OLEDB - Oracle Provider for OLEDB
   g) OraMTS - Oracle Services for MTS
   
   The install.bat will also be extracted to the same location as the ODAC zip file, which is used to install and configure a specific product.
   
   
3. Execute install.bat to install and configure ODAC products.
   
   To install all ODAC products, execute the following:
   
   install.bat all c:\oracle odac
   
   Each product can be also be installed and configured individually. As an example, executing the following will install only ODP.NET 2:
   
   install.bat odp.net2 c:\oracle odac
   
   where "c:\oracle", for example, is your installation directory and "odac" is the Oracle Home Name that is used for the registry keys. In this example, the registry entries for this install is created under HKLM\Software\Oracle\KEY_odac. Note that ODP.NET registry entries are simply created under HKLM\Software\Oracle\ODP.NET\, and not under HKLM\Software\Oracle\KEY_. If multiple products are installed to the same destination directory, make sure that the Oracle Home Name that is specified as an argument to install.bat is the same for all those products.
   
   By default, when install.bat is executed for a given product, the product and its dependencies will be installed and configured WITHOUT a check to see if there is a newer version of the product or its dependencies already installed.
   
   Below is the product dependency information:
   
   a) Oracle Data Provider for .NET 2 depends on
       - Oracle Instant Client
   b) Oracle Data Provider for .NET 4 depends on
       - Oracle Instant Client
   c) Oracle Providers for ASP.NET 2 depends on
       - Oracle Instant Client
       - Oracle Data Provider for .NET 2
   d) Oracle Providers for ASP.NET 4 depends on
       - Oracle Instant Client
       - Oracle Data Provider for .NET 4
   e) Oracle Provider for OLEDB depends on
       - Oracle Instant Client
   f) Oracle Services for MTS depends on
       - Oracle Instant Client
   
   To not have the products dependencies installed and configured, execute install.bat with 'false' as the fourth parameter.
   
   For example, executing
   
   install.bat asp.net2 c:\oracle odac false
   
   will only install and configure ASP.NET 2 and not install and configure ODP.NET 2 or instant client. If the last argument is not specified, the product and its dependencies will be installed and configured.
   
   
4. Add the install directory and install directory's bin subdirectory to the system PATH environment variable before any other Oracle directories. Otherwise, the products that are installed may not work properly as it will not be able to load the necessary DLLs. for example, if c:\oracle was provided as the install directory, add c:\oracle and c:\oracle\bin to the system PATH.
   
   
5. Note that install.bat sets the value of the NLS_LANG registry key at HKLM\Software\Oracle\KEY_ to AMERICAN_AMERICA.WE8MSWIN1252 by default. Please modify install.bat or change this value in the registry after the install if necessary.
   
   
6. If OraMTS is installed, the OracleMTSRecoveryService is created with the LocalSystem account as the logon account. The credentials can be changed using the "services" administration tool. Please read the OraMTS readme.txt for details. Note that after the install or the configuration, the service will not be started, since it requires the install directory and its bin directory to be included in the system PATH.
   
   
7. Application using components from ODAC can use EZ CONNECT to connect to Oracle without depending on tnsnames.ora. Otherwise, configure or copy over tnsnames.ora from another machine and set TNS_ADMIN or ORACLE_HOME environment variable appropriately.

UnInstallation Instructions

1. Execute uninstall.bat from the Oracle Home installation directory to unconfigure and uninstall ODAC products.
   
   To uninstall all ODAC products, execute the following:
   
   uninstall.bat all odac
   or
   uninstall.bat all c:\oracle
   
   Each product can be also be unconfigured and uninstalled individually. As an example, executing the following will uninstall only ODP.NET 4:
   
   uninstall.bat odp.net4 odac
   or
   uninstall.bat odp.net4 c:\oracle
   
   where "odac" is the Oracle Home Name that was used at install time and "c:\oracle" is the installation directory. The uninstall.bat does not uninstall the product's dependencies. This means that the above example will only uninstall ODP.NET 4 and not it's dependencies.
   
   
2. Remove the install directory and install directory's bin subdirectory from the system PATH environment variable.

Notes

1. For backward compatibility, install.bat will still accept arguments odp.net20 and asp.net to install Oracle Data Provider for .NET 2 and Oracle Providers for ASP.NET 2.
   
   
2. The install and uninstall scripts log all operations to the destination directory's install.log and uninstall.log.