Oracle9i Application Developer's Guide - Large Objects (LOBs) Release 1 (9.0.1) Part Number A88879-01 |
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This section describes the new features in the following releases:
The following sections describe the new features in Oracle9i Large Objects (LOBs):
To assist you in migrating to LOBs, Oracle now supports the LONG API for LOBs. This API ensures that when you change your LONG columns to LOBs, your existing applications will require few changes, if any. When possible, change your existing applications to use LOBs instead of LONGs because of the added benefits that LOBs provide.
In this release, for the first time, you can access (internal persistent) LOBs using SQL VARCHAR2 semantics, such as SQL string operators and functions. By providing you with an SQL interface, which you are familiar with, accessing LOB data can be greatly facilitated. These semantics are recommended when using small-sized LOBs (~ 10-100KB).
Oracle C++ Call Interface (OCCI) is a new C++ API for manipulating data in an Oracle database. OCCI is organized as an easy-to-use collection of C++ classes which enable a C++ program to connect to a database, execute SQL statements, insert/update values in database tables, retrieve results of a query, execute stored procedures in the database, and access metadata of database schema objects. OCCI API provides advantages over JDBC and ODBC.
The following are new JDBC LOB-related functionality:
Oracle9i introduces support for LOB, VARRAY columns stored as LOBs, and BFILEs in partitioned index-organized tables. The behavior of LOB columns in these tables is similar to that of LOB columns in conventional (heap-organized) partitioned tables, except for a few minor differences.
OLE DB is an open specification for accessing various types of data from different stores in a uniform way. OLEDB supports the following functions for these LOB types:
New LOB features introduced in Oracle8i, Release 2 (8.1.6) were:
New LOB features included in the Oracle8i, Release 8.1.5 are:
LOB
s
CLOB
and NCLOB
support
LOB
s in partitioned tables
LOB
s (open
/close
/isopen
, writeappend
, getchunksize
)
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