Tag Archives: Database

Activate Oracle on XAMPP for Windows

Posted on August 22, 2009 by Nimal

PHP has got the OCI8 extension, which provides Oracle connectivity to PHP application, and OCI8 uses Oracle Instant Client Package to get Oracle specific functions. Continue reading →

Posted in Tech Notes | Tagged Database, Linux, Oracle, PHP, Windows, XAMPP | 5 Comments

Renaming a MySQL database

Posted on April 7, 2008 by Nimal

MySQL does not support renaming a database (and prefers not to be done in the supported versions) as mentioned here. However, use of this statement could result in loss of database contents, which is why it was removed. Do not … Continue reading →