17 More OCI Relational Functions

This chapter completes the description of the OCI relational functions started in the previous chapter. It includes information about calling OCI functions in your application, along with detailed descriptions of each function call.

See Also: For code examples, see the demonstration programs included with your Oracle Database installation. For additional information, see Appendix B.

This chapter contains these topics:

• Introduction to the Relational Functions

• Statement Functions

• LOB Functions

• Streams Advanced Queuing and Publish-Subscribe Functions

• Direct Path Loading Functions

• Thread Management Functions

• Transaction Functions

• Miscellaneous Functions

Introduction to the Relational Functions

This chapter describes the OCI relational function calls. This chapter and the previous one, cover the functions in the basic OCI.

See Also: "Error Handling in OCI" for information about return codes and error handling

Conventions for OCI Functions

See the "Conventions for OCI Functions" for the conventions used in describing each function.