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Connection option changes when upgrading Oracle ODBC driver from 7.1 to 8.0

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TitleConnection option changes when upgrading Oracle ODBC driver from 7.1 to 8.0
URL Nameconnection-option-changes-when-upgrading-oracle-odbc-driver-from-7-1-to-8-0
Article Number000133167
EnvironmentProduct: Progress DataDirect for ODBC for Oracle Wire Protocol driver
Version: 8.0
OS: All supported platforms
Database: Oracle
Application: All ODBC applications
Question/Problem Description
When upgrading the Oracle driver from Connect for ODBC 7.1 to DataDirect for ODBC 8.0 Oracle driver the following changes were noticed

EnableNcharSupport option is missing from the ODBC administrator when configuring the ODBC Data Source.

Following new connection options were noticed.
TCPKeepAlive
SupportBinaryXML
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The Enable N-CHAR Support connection option has been deprecated, and the driver behavior has been updated to always provide support for the N-types NCHAR, NVARCHAR2 and NCLOB. For compatibility purposes, the EnableNcharSupport attribute can still be manually configured for this release, but will be deprecated in subsequent versions of the product. To configure the attribute on Windows, use the Extended Options field on the Advanced tab. For UNIX/Linux, using a text editor, add the attribute to your data source in the odbc.ini file.

TCPKeepAlive used to be hidden connection option with 7.1.6 driver and its now a public connection option with 8.0 drivers.

SupportBinaryXML is a new connection option added with 8.0 driver it Enables the driver to support XMLType with binary storage on servers running Oracle 12c and higher
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References to Other Documentation:
ODBC Release History - Oracle Database
https://www.progress.com/odbc/release-history/oracle-database-odbc

Progress DataDirect for ODBC for Oracle Wire Protocol Driver Version 8.0.2, Connection Option Descriptions, Enable N-CHAR Support 
https://documentation.progress.com/output/DataDirect/odbcoraclehelp/index.html#page/odbcoracle%2Fenable-n-char-support.html%23

Progress DataDirect for ODBC for Oracle Wire Protocol Driver Version 8.0.2, Connection Option Descriptions, Support Binary XML 
https://documentation.progress.com/output/DataDirect/odbcoraclehelp/index.html#page/odbcoracle%2Fsupport-binary-xml.html%23

Progress DataDirect for ODBC for Oracle Wire Protocol Driver Version 8.0.2, Connection Option Descriptions, TCP Keep Alive 
https://documentation.progress.com/output/DataDirect/odbcoraclehelp/index.html#page/odbcoracle%2Ftcp-keep-alive.html%23
Last Modified Date11/4/2019 4:50 PM
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