I need some feedback to get started.
My company owns a license of 3.55.XX version, I just noticed that version 4.0 is out. However I couldn't see any reasons to upgrade yet.
Is there any real added value or just a marketing hype (citius-altius-fortius)?
What is really interesting for me is performance aspect. Is 4.0 faster than 3.55? Is it more robust & less buggier?
I use only few components like OracleConnection, OracleCommand & OracleDataReader... Are there any improvements in this area?
Thank you in advance,
AL
ORA.NET 4.0 vs ORA.NET 3.55.XX
Yes, there are some advantages:Is there any real added value or just a marketing hype (citius-altius-fortius)?
- In Direct mode we significantly improved working with BLOBs starting from 4.20
- x64 supported
- OCI Pooling in 4.20 supported
- Proxy Authentication in 4.20 supported
- IN and IN/OUT REF CURSORs supported
- Added new class OracleGlobalization for managing culture settings
- Performance enhanced
- Added design-time features for quick application development