Oracle9i Application Developer's
Guide - Object-Relational Features Release 1 (9.0.1) Part Number A88878-01 |
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This section describes the new object-relational features of Oracle9i Release 1 (9.0.1).
Specialized versions of user-defined types can be defined as subtypes in a SQL type hierarchy.
Hierarchies can be created of object views based on some or all of the types in a type hierarchy. Object view hierarchies simplify targeting a particular subtype (and perhaps its subtypes) in queries and other operations.
User-defined SQL types can be changed, or evolved, instead of having to be recreated.
Custom aggregate functions can be defined for working with complex data.
External procedures can be given fields or parameters of a generic type that can contain values of any scalar or user-defined type, making it unnecessary to implement multiple versions of the same external procedure just to handle multiple datatypes.
Function-based indexes can be built on type method functions.
Collections (varrays and nested tables) can contain elements that are themselves collections or have attributes that are.
A C++ interface (OCCI) to Oracle, built on top of OCI, enables you to use the object-oriented features, native classes, and methods of the C++ programing language to access the Oracle database.
You can now create SQL types mapped to existing Java classes to provide persistent storage for Java objects. Such SQL types are called SQL types of Language Java, or SQLJ types.
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