Re: OCI
Date: 1996/11/15
Message-ID: <328C5D49.64AE_at_no.junk.mail>#1/1
Gus Spier wrote:
>
> Being ignorant is so tiresome ... Can anyone direct me to a
> faq/UG/resource on what OCI is? Is there a straight, one para answer
> suitable for this medium?
OCI stands for Oracle Call Interface, and it's a huge collection of functions which a programmer can use to access the Oracle database from a so-called "3rd generation" language such as C, Fortran, or Cobol.
If you're recently installed Oracle, my advice is to read the book on the CD-ROM regarding OCI, and work with the demo programs that should have been installed in $ORACLE_HOME/rdbms/demo. Although, you may have to create a Makefile from scratch to get them to correctly compile and link.
I expect you can successfully do almost anything you'd ever dream of doing with 1/5th of the functions provided.
> TIA
> Gus
Received on Fri Nov 15 1996 - 00:00:00 CET