3 Features of Oracle Data Provider for .NET

This chapter describes Oracle Data Provider for .NET provider-specific features and how to use them to develop .NET applications.

This chapter contains these topics:

• Connecting to the Oracle Database

• OracleCommand Object

• ODP.NET Types Overview

• Obtaining Data From an OracleDataReader

• PL/SQL REF CURSOR and OracleRefCursor

• LOB Support

• ODP.NET XML Support

• OracleDataAdapter Safe Type Mapping

• OracleDataAdapter Requery Property

• Guaranteeing Uniqueness in Updating DataSet to Database

• Globalization Support

• Debug Tracing