1 Basic OCI Concepts

This part of the guide contains chapters that describe basic OCI programming concepts:

• Chapter 1, "Introduction and New Features", provides an introduction to the OCI and discusses features that are new to release 8.0.
• Chapter 2, "OCI Programming Basics", discusses the basic concepts of OCI programming.
• Chapter 3, "Datatypes", describes datatypes used in OCI applications and within the Oracle8 Server.
• Chapter 4, "SQL Statement Processing", discusses how to process SQL statements using the Oracle8 OCI.
• Chapter 5, "Binding and Defining", discusses bind and define operations in detail.
• Chapter 6, "Describing Schema Metadata", discusses the OCIDescribeAny() function.
• Chapter 7, "OCI Programming Advanced Topics", covers some advanced concepts used in OCI programming.

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