Part I
OCI Relational Concepts

This part contains these chapters:

• Chapter 1, "Introduction and Upgrading", provides an introduction to the OCI and discusses features that are new to this release.
• Chapter 2, "OCI Programming Basics", discusses the basic concepts of OCI programming.
• Chapter 3, "Datatypes", describes datatypes used in OCI applications and within the server.
• Chapter 4, "Using SQL Statements in OCI", discusses how to process SQL statements using OCI.
• Chapter 5, "Binding and Defining in OCI", discusses bind and define operations in detail.
• Chapter 6, "Describing Schema Metadata", discusses the OCIDescribeAny() function.
• Chapter 7, "LOB and BFILE Operations", discusses the OCI functions that perform operations on large objects (LOBs) in a database and external LOBs.
• Chapter 8, "Managing Scalable Platforms", discusses password and session management, middle-tier applications, and externally initialized context.
• Chapter 9, "OCI Programming Advanced Topics", covers advanced topics in OCI programming, such as threads, connection pooling, session pooling, user-defined callbacks, advanced queuing, and publish-subscribe notification.