Question

Is it possible to use Oracle database? Web app is currently using Oracle and may not have access to SQL Server.

Thanks.

RO

Answer 1

Out-of-the-box that’s not possible. ASP.NET supports the following session state providers:

• In-Process – the session is stored into the memory of the web server
• State Server – the session is serialized and stored into the memory of a specific server running the ASP.NET session state service. This could be a different machine from the web server
• SQL Server – the session is serialized and persisted into a MS SQL Server database

The SQLServer sessionState mode uses, as it’s names suggests, SQL Server. If you want to use Oracle you will have to write a custom session state provider by inheriting from the SessionStateStoreProviderBase class and overriding all the methods.