Contents

Title and Copyright Information

1 Introducing the Oracle Call Interface

What Is the Oracle Call Interface?

Release 8.1 New Features

What Is Included in the OCI Package?

Oracle Directory Structure

Sample Program for Windows NT and Windows 95/98

Additional Information

2 Building OCI Applications

Writing OCI Applications

Compiling OCI Applications

Linking OCI Applications

OCI.LIB

Client DLL Loading When Using LoadLibrary()

The Oracle XA Library

Compiling and Linking an OCI Program with the Oracle XA Library

XA Dynamic Registration

Running OCI Applications

Using the Object Type Translator and the INTYPE File

Additional Information

Index