OCILIB is an open source C library to access Oracle databases. It encapsulates OCI (Oracle Call Interface), a low-level programming interface provided by Oracle that is a powerful but complex API. OCILIB is built on top of OCI, hiding its complexity and providing a simpler, more readable, and more reusable API. License: GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL) Changes: This release adds full BFILE support, prefetch support, and support for describing database objects (currently only table support). Lob support has been extended. The column info API has been modified and extended. Support for formatted functions has been extended. OCILIB Objects binding has been fixed. There are miscellaneous internal fixes and modifications. There are performance improvements and updated documentation.

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