Oracle9i Data Cartridge Developer's Guide Release 1 (9.0.1) Part Number A88896-01 |
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The Oracle9i Data Cartridge Developer's Guide describes how to build and use data cartridges to create custom extensions to the Oracle server's indexing and optimizing capabilities.
This preface contains these topics:
Oracle9i Data Cartridge Developer's Guide is intended for developers who want to learn how to build and use data cartridges to customize the indexing and optimizing functionality of the Oracle server to suit exotic kinds of data.
To use this document, you need to be familiar with using Oracle and should have a background in an Oracle-supported programming language such as C, C++, or Java used to write external procedures.
This Guide is organized into five parts:
Chapter 1 and Chapter 2 provide basic information and lay the groundwork for a comprehensive example used throughout the later chapters.
Chapters 3 through 9 lay out the components that go into building a data cartridge.
Chapters 10, 11, and 12 discuss design considerations, user-defined aggregate functions, and pipelined and parallel table functions.
Chapters 13 and 14 elaborate the Power Utility example scenario developed in Chapter 3, to illustrate extensible indexing. Appendix A supplements Chapter 12 with two extended examples of how to implement a table function, in C and in Java.
Chapters 15 through 20 provide reference information on data cartridge-specific APIs.
For information on cartridge services using C, see the chapter on cartridge services in the Oracle Call Interface Programmer's Guide.
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