Installing oracle instant client

It sounds like you have downloaded the Instant Client but if you're looking for an installer, you'd want the full client. I'm looking for something that will allow me to connect to our Oracle, so i can migrate data over Show 3 more comments. Active Oldest Votes. Sergio Cabral Sergio Cabral 4, 32 32 silver badges 32 32 bronze badges. Does Oracle know what "instant" means? AaronLS It's pretty "instant" compared with the full Oracle installer — orev.

This doesn't seem to work for establishing ODBC connections for the instant client. Still checking if I need to set up a tnsnames. Such a way to install things.

Congrats Oracle!! Add a comment. I had to create a "tnsnames. Put it in same folder as the client. This worked for me when I got "You have no Oracle clients installed" and "You do not have any Oracle homes installed" after installing TOAD and pointing it to the instant client zip.

The directions state: Download the appropriate Instant Client packages for your platform. Unzip the packages into a single directory such as "instantclient". Set the library loading path in your environment to the directory in Step 2 "instantclient". Start your application and enjoy. Then in Step 3, open a Windows Command Prompt. Please see the updated syntax.

It's unclear whether you're running the right thing. What exactly are your requirements? A command line client? Justin Cave Justin Cave k 22 22 gold badges silver badges bronze badges. Phillip Brown Phillip Brown 11 1 1 bronze badge.

The Overflow Blog. Podcast Making Agile work for data science. Stack Gives Back Featured on Meta. New post summary designs on greatest hits now, everywhere else eventually. The Oracle Instant Client is a light-weight, freely distributable implementation of an Oracle client. A big advantage of the Instant Client is it does not need a formal installation. Instead, it can be unzipped and used without any fuss. In many cases I now use SQLcl instead of the instant client.

Before considering the instant client, you should ask yourself if SQLcl would be more appropriate. Since September the instant client RPMs have been freely available on yum. If you are using Oracle Linux and have root access you can install the instant client using Yum with a few simple commands.