I think the description on the page is correct... umbraco's data provider model allows you to use any database, and a number of databases already have providers (MS SQL, MySQL, VistaDB). If you want to use Oracle, Access, Postgres, etc. you only need to implement the provider for that database and it'll work with umbraco.
I don't know of anyone who's done an Oracle provider yet so you'd have to build that part yourself. You can use the existing providers and samples of how to do it.
There was an oracle 4 umbraco project started on codeplex last year but does not seem to have made any progress. You could at least contact the owner and see if they have any of the code they would like to share.
Problem installing umbraco 4.0.4.1 with Oracle
Hi all,
I am in step 2 of 5 of the installation and choose custom connection string and entered in the following string
datalayer=Oracle;server=127.0.0.1;user id=xxx;password=xxx;database=umbraco
and it gives the following error.
Database connection initialisation failed. Umbraco Exception (DataLayer): Could not load type umbraco.DataLayer.SqlHelpers.Oracle.OracleHelper (umbraco.DataLayer, Version=0.3.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=null).
Am I missing somthing? Any help would be appreicated
never minded, saw this post: http://our.umbraco.org/forum/getting-started/installing-umbraco/7262-Umbraco-with-Oracle?sort=newest
I guess oracle is not supported yet.
I think someone needs to correct this marketing material:
http://umbraco.org/umbraco-4---get-excited/one-cms-any-database
From what I am seeing, umbraco really only support mysql and mssql.
I think the description on the page is correct... umbraco's data provider model allows you to use any database, and a number of databases already have providers (MS SQL, MySQL, VistaDB). If you want to use Oracle, Access, Postgres, etc. you only need to implement the provider for that database and it'll work with umbraco.
I don't know of anyone who's done an Oracle provider yet so you'd have to build that part yourself. You can use the existing providers and samples of how to do it.
cheers,
doug.
There was an oracle 4 umbraco project started on codeplex last year but does not seem to have made any progress. You could at least contact the owner and see if they have any of the code they would like to share.
http://oracle4umbraco.codeplex.com/
-Chris
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