Preface

This companion book to the Oracle Database Developer's Guide to the Oracle Precompilers shows you how to write FORTRAN programs that use the powerful database language SQL to access and manipulate Oracle data. It provides examples, instructions, and programming tips, as well as several full-length programs to aid your understanding of embedded SQL and demonstrate its usefulness.

This manual, accompanied by the Oracle Database Developer's Guide to the Oracle Precompilers, guides you to getting the most from Pro*FORTRAN and embedded SQL.

This preface contains these topics:

• Audience

• Documentation Accessibility

• Related Documents

• Conventions

Audience

This guide is intended for anyone developing new FORTRAN applications or converting existing FORTRAN applications to run in the Oracle environment. Though written specially for developers, it is also useful to systems analysts, project managers, and others interested in embedded SQL applications.

Related Documents

To use this manual effectively, you need a working knowledge of the following subjects:

• Applications programming in FORTRAN

• The concepts, terminology, and methods discussed in the Oracle Database Developer's Guide to the Oracle Precompilers

• The SQL database language

• Oracle database concepts and terminology

Conventions

The following text conventions are used in this document:

Convention	Meaning
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