OracleConnection Class

6.4 OracleConnection Class

An OracleConnection object represents a connection to an Oracle database.

Class Inheritance

System.Object

System.MarshalByRefObject

System.ComponentModel.Component

System.Data.Common.DbConnection

Oracle.DataAccess.Client.OracleConnection

Declaration

// C#
public sealed class OracleConnection : DbConnection, IDbConnection, ICloneable

Requirements

Provider	ODP.NET, Unmanaged Driver	ODP.NET, Managed Driver
Assembly	`Oracle.DataAccess.dll`	`Oracle.ManagedDataAccess.dll`
Namespace	`Oracle.DataAccess.Client`	`Oracle.ManagedDataAccess.Client`
.NET Framework	3.5, 4.5, 4.6	4.5, 4.6

Thread Safety

All public static methods are thread-safe, although instance methods do not guarantee thread safety.

Example

// C#
 
using System;
using System.Data;
using Oracle.DataAccess.Client; 
 
class OracleConnectionSample
{
  static void Main()
  {  
    // Connect
    string constr = "User Id=scott;Password=tiger;Data Source=oracle";
    OracleConnection con = new OracleConnection(constr);
    con.Open();
 
    // Execute a SQL SELECT
    OracleCommand cmd = con.CreateCommand();
    cmd.CommandText = "select * from emp";
    OracleDataReader reader = cmd.ExecuteReader();
 
    // Print all employee numbers
    while (reader.Read())
      Console.WriteLine(reader.GetInt32(0));
 
    // Clean up
    reader.Dispose();
    cmd.Dispose();
    con.Dispose();
  }
}