This instance method enables applications to set the sharding key and the super sharding key before requesting a connection.

Declaration

// C#
public void SetShardingKey(OracleShardingKey shardKey, OracleShardingKey superShardingKey);

Exceptions

InvalidArgumentException – An invalid Oracle sharding key is supplied.

InvalidOperationException – The method is invoked when the connection is in an Open state.

Remarks

This method sets the sharding key and the super sharding key that is to be used for returning the proper connection upon the Open method invocation.

This method can only be invoked when the connection is in a Closed state.

Example

// C#

using System;
using Oracle.DataAccess.Client;
 
class Sharding
{
  static void Main()
  {
    OracleConnection con = new OracleConnection("user id=hr;password=hr;Data Source=orcl;");
    //Setting a shard key
    OracleShardingKey shardingKey = new OracleShardingKey(OracleDbType.Int32, 123);
    //Setting a second shard key value for a composite key
    shardingKey.SetShardingKey(OracleDbType.Varchar2, "gold");
    //Creating and setting the super shard key
    OracleShardingKey superShardingKey = new OracleShardingKey();
    superShardingKey.SetShardingKey(OracleDbType.Int32, 1000);
    
    //Setting super sharding key and sharding key on the connection
    con.SetShardingKey(shardingKey, superShardingKey);
    con.Open();
 
    //perform SQL query
  }
}