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In article <32b815ca.5989626_at_PersonalNews.Germany.EU.net>,
balu_at_urdolph.du.eunet.de says...
> Since it seems to be the most undocumented feature on my Workgroup
> Server, I'd like to know if there is a tutorial, an alternative API or
> something else available for Oracles OCI Interface?
>
> Ciao,
> Arne
>
The Oracle Call Interface is a (very) low level interface to the Oracle
server and requires a fairly deep understanding of the interface
architecture, especially as it related to managing internal structures
such as cursors. The interface is defined in the OCI documentation,
consisting of a general manual, and language specific manuals. Unless
you need to implement low level data access directly, you should avoid
using OCI. You should be able to do do everything you need through the
pre-compilers (Pro*c, etc.). If you want to experiment, there are some
examples on the distribubtion, under the ../oci72/samples directory.
Jim Daly
Product Architect
Received on Sun Dec 29 1996 - 00:00:00 CST