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Which is better to use, oci or ora?

Mar 14th, 2005 23:04
Jos Juffermans, Nathan Wallace, Mark Britton

If you're connecting to an Oracle 8 database, then use the oci
functions...they are definitely more robust, plus they support blobs,
globs, and rowids which are not available in the ora functions.

Update:
OCI functions also allow variable binding which you need to use if you 
want to store UTF-8 characters.