Oracle database requirements for ArcGIS 10.3.x

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Supported database versions

Standard/Standard One/Enterprise Editions:

Oracle 10g R2 (64-bit) 10.2.0.3

Oracle 11g R2 (64-bit) 11.2.0.3

Oracle 12c R1 (64-bit) 12.1.0.1

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Supported operating systems

Database	Supported Operating System(s)	Minimum OS Version	Maximum OS Version
Oracle 10g R2 (64 bit) 10.2.0.3 Click here for Database Requirements	IBM AIX 6.1.0.0
	Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS/ES 5 (64 bit)	Update 7
	Sun Solaris 9 (64 bit [SPARC])
	Sun Solaris 10 (64 bit [SPARC])
	Windows 2008 R2 Server Standard, Enterprise & Datacenter (64-bit [AMD64/EM64T])		SP1
Oracle 11g R2 (64 bit) 11.2.0.3 Click here for Database Requirements	IBM AIX 6.1.0.0
	IBM AIX 7.1.0.0
	Oracle Linux Server 5 (64-bit) (see note below)	Update 8
	Oracle Linux Server 6 (64-bit) (see note below)
	Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS/ES 5 (64-bit)	Update 7
	Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS/ES 6 (64-bit)
	Sun Solaris 10 (64 bit [SPARC])
	Sun Solaris 11 (64-bit [SPARC])
	SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 (64-bit)	SP1
	Windows 2008 R2 Server Standard, Enterprise & Datacenter (64-bit [AMD64/EM64T])		SP1
	Windows Server 2012 Standard, and Datacenter (64-bit (EM64T))
	Windows Server 2012 R2 Standard, and Datacenter (64-bit (EM64T))
Oracle 12c R1 (64 bit) 12.1.0.1 Click here for Database Requirements	IBM AIX 7.1.0.0
	Oracle Linux Server 5 (64-bit)	Update 8
	Oracle Linux Server 6 (64-bit)
	Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS/ES 5 (64-bit)	Update 7
	Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS/ES 6 (64-bit)
	Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS/ES 7 (64-bit)
	Sun Solaris 10 (64 bit [SPARC])
	Sun Solaris 11 (64-bit [SPARC])
	SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 (64-bit)	SP1
	Windows 2008 R2 Server Standard, Enterprise & Datacenter (64-bit [AMD64/EM64T])		SP1
	Windows Server 2012 Standard, and Datacenter (64-bit (EM64T))
	Windows Server 2012 R2 Standard, and Datacenter (64-bit (EM64T))

Note:

• Support for Oracle Linux is based on Oracle documentation that Oracle Linux is compatible-both source and binary-with Red Hat Enterprise Linux. See Oracle Linux FAQ http://www.oracle.com/us/technologies/027617.pdf.
• Support for the Oracle Exadata Database Machine is based on Oracle guidance that OEM software that supports both Oracle Linux and Oracle RAC is compatible with Oracle Exadata.
• Oracle Linux 5 is compatible with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5. DBMS support is Oracle 11.2.0.2.0 and up.
• Oracle Linux 6 is compatible with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6. DBMS support is Oracle 11.2.0.3.0 and up.
• A new option in Oracle 12c, called Multitenant Architecture, consisting of a container database that can hold many pluggable databases, is supported at the pluggable database level. ArcGIS supports the same functionality in pluggable databases as is supported for Oracle 11g R2. Esri is evaluating new Oracle 12c features that are appropriate for the ArcGIS platform and will add support for them based on suitability and customer demand.

Database requirements

Note:

• The Oracle Text component must be installed. The Text component is installed by default in Oracle; however, if you did not perform a default installation, the Text component may not have been installed.
• Also note that if there is no native ArcGIS build for the operating system of the server hosting the Oracle database, then there is no support for SQL access to ST_Geometry or ST_Raster. ST_Geometry and ST_Raster storage can be used from ArcGIS clients, but SQL access to this data is not supported.

Oracle 10g R2 (10.2.0.x) requirements

Note:

• Oracle 10.2.0.3 ST_GEOMETRY users need to apply Oracle Patch that fixes Oracle bug 6756089.
• An Oracle 11g R2 or Oracle 12c database client must be used to connect to an Oracle 10g R2 database.

Oracle 11g R2 (11.2.0.x) requirements

Note:

• Oracle 11.2.0.3 is the base supported version for 11g. However, there are several issues customers are encountering in 11.2.0.3. Therefore, Esri recommends moving to 11.2.0.4. The issues are detailed in this Esri technical article.

Oracle database patch support

Oracle 10.2.0.3, 11.2.0.3, and 12.1.0.1 or higher Oracle Patch. This includes Oracle patch set levels and Oracle Interim (One-Off) Patch as per Oracle Corporation's Patch Set Overview and Interim Patch documentation..

See Oracle Support for all Oracle patch set (and Interim Patch) documentation and installation instructions. Esri recommends making a full backup of your Oracle database prior to applying any Oracle patch sets or interim patch. If functionality that was working prior to applying the Oracle patch set or interim patch stops working, return to the previous version of Oracle. Contact Oracle support as needed

Software required to connect to a DBMS

Your client machine (for example, the one running ArcMap) will need to have the appropriate client files installed for the RDBMS you are using. These client files are available from their respective RDBMS vendors, but some are also available on My Esri as a convenience. See Database clients for more information. RDBMS client files available from My Esri are IBM DB2, IBM Informix, Microsoft SQL Server, and PostgreSQL. Client files for ALTIBASE, IBM Netezza, Oracle, SAP HANA, and Teradata are not available on My Esri and must be obtained from the RDBMS vendors.