Re: Oracle Call Interface

Mumtaz Zaheer wrote:
>
> I dont know if this is the group I am looking for. But anyway, does
> OCI support Backup and Recovery? Is there anyway to do that using OCI?
>
> Please do consider me new to Databases, and I have just been asked to
> make an application that work on Windows platform for backup and
> recovery purpose.
>
> As I am new to database administration, I saw two ways of taking
> backup one is Hot and Cold backup and other using Export and Import
> utilities. As I am going to take backup from my application, I will
> either use ODBC, ADO or OCI for that purpose. I am also looking for
> results that Backup command or query generates so that I can tell my
> user about that If some error occurs.
>

OCI and the other abbreviations are just client APIs for interaction with the RDBMS. They don't care about backup/recovery or export/import.

I'd suggest reading th Oracle documentation about backup/recovery and administration to get a clearer understanding.

Uwe

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