OCIDurationBegin()

Purpose

Starts a user duration for a temporary LOB.

Syntax

sword OCIDurationBegin ( OCIEnv              *env,
                         OCIError            *err,
                         CONST OCISvcCtx     *svc, 
                         OCIDuration         parent,
                         OCIDuration         *duration );

Parameters

env (IN/OUT)

Pass as a null pointer.

err (IN/OUT)

The OCI error handle. If there is an error, it is recorded in err and this function returns OCI_ERROR. Diagnostic information can be obtained by calling OCIErrorGet().

svc (IN)

An OCI service context handle. Must be non-null.

parent (IN)

The duration number of the parent duration. One of these:

• OCI_DURATION_STATEMENT
• OCI_DURATION_SESSION

duration (OUT)

An identifier unique to the newly created user duration.

Comments

This function starts an user duration. In release 8.1 or later, user durations can be used when creating temporary LOBs. An user can have multiple active user durations simultaneously. The user durations do not have to be nested. The dur parameter is used to return a number which uniquely identifies the duration created by this call.

Related Functions

OCIDurationEnd()