Welcome to cx_Oracle’s documentation!

cx_Oracle is a module that enables access to Oracle Database and conforms to the Python database API specification. This module is currently tested against Oracle Client 11.2, 12.1, 12.2 and 18.3 and Python 2.7, 3.5, 3.6 and 3.7.

cx_Oracle is distributed under an open-source license (the BSD license).

Contents:

• cx_Oracle 7 Installation
  • Overview
  • Quick Start cx_Oracle Installation
  • Oracle Client and Oracle Database Interoperability
  • Installing cx_Oracle on Linux
  • Installing cx_Oracle RPMs on Oracle Linux
  • Installing cx_Oracle on Windows
  • Installing cx_Oracle on macOS
  • Install Using GitHub
  • Install Using Source from PyPI
  • Upgrading from cx_Oracle 6
  • Upgrading from cx_Oracle 5
  • Installing cx_Oracle 5.3
  • Troubleshooting
• Module Interface
  • Constants
  • Types
  • Exceptions
  • Exception handling
• Connection Object
• Cursor Object
• Variable Objects
• SessionPool Object
• Subscription Object
  • Message Objects
  • Message Table Objects
  • Message Row Objects
  • Message Query Objects
• LOB Objects
• Object Type Objects
  • Object Objects
• Advanced Queuing
  • Dequeue Options
  • Enqueue Options
  • Message Properties
• SODA
  • SODA Database Object
  • SODA Collection Object
  • SODA Document Object
  • SODA Document Cursor Object
  • SODA Operation Object
• What’s New
  • cx_Oracle 6.0
• cx_Oracle Release Notes
  • 7.x releases
  • 6.x releases
  • 5.x releases
  • Older releases
• License

Indices and tables

• Index
• Module Index
• Search Page