List of Figures

1-1 Embedded SQL Program Development

1-2 Features and Benefits

2-1 Embedded SQL Application Development Process

3-1 Connecting through Oracle Net

5-1 Hypothetical DTP Model

9-1 SQLSTATE Coding Scheme

11-1 Loosely Coupling Connections and Threads

11-2 Context Sharing Among Threads

11-3 No Context Sharing Among Threads

11-4 Connection Pooling

11-5 Performance Graph

11-6 Performance Graph Case 1

11-7 Performance Graph Case 2

13-1 Choosing the Right Method

15-1 How Variables Are Set

15-2 Initialized Select Descriptor

15-3 Initialized Bind Descriptor

15-4 Bind Descriptor after the DESCRIBE

15-5 Bind Descriptor after Assigning Values

15-6 Select Descriptor after the DESCRIBE

15-7 Select Descriptor before the FETCH

15-8 Selected Descriptor after the FETCH

17-1 Accessing Objects Using SQL

17-2 Navigational Access

17-3 Navigational Access (continued)

19-1 Using OTT with OCI

19-2 Building an Object-oriented Pro*C/C++ Application

C-1 PL/SQL Boosts Performance

C-2 Cursors Linked using the Cursor Cache