Preface

This guide describes how to use Oracle8 Server Image Cartridge.

Image Cartridge is dependent on features supplied with Oracle8 Server. The major Oracle8 dependent features are support for object data types and methods, large objects, and PL/SQL external procedures with callbacks.

Intended Audience

This guide is intended for anyone who wants to store, retrieve, and manipulate image data in an Oracle database, including developers of image specialization cartridges.

Structure

This guide contains three chapters and three appendixes:

Chapter 1	Introduces image and data cartridge concepts and provides an overview of the Image Cartridge functions.
Chapter 2	Provides examples of using the Image Cartridge types and methods.
Chapter 3	Describes the procedures you can use to manipulate image data.
Appendix A	Describes the supported image data formats.
Appendix B	Describes how to install Image Cartridge.
Appendix C	Lists potential errors, their causes, and user actions to correct them.

Related Documents

For information added after the release of this guide, refer to the online file: ORACLE_HOME/ord/img/admin/README.TXT.

For more information, see the following manuals in the Oracle8 Server documentation set:

• Oracle8 Server Application Developer's Guide
• Oracle8 Server Object Extensions
• Oracle PL/SQL User's Guide and Reference
• Programmers Guide to the Oracle Call Interface

Conventions

In this guide, Oracle8 Server Image Cartridge is sometimes referred to as Image Cartridge, or simply, the cartridge. Oracle Corporation's Network Computing Architecture is referred to as, the architecture.

In examples, an implied carriage return occurs at the end of each line, unless otherwise noted. You must press the Return key at the end of a line of input.

Convention	Meaning
. . .	Vertical ellipsis points in an example mean that information not directly related to the example has been omitted.
. . .	Horizontal ellipsis points in statements or commands mean that parts of the statement or command not directly related to the example have been omitted
boldface text	Boldface type in text indicates a term defined in the text, the glossary, or in both locations.
< >	Angle brackets enclose user-supplied names.
[ ]	Brackets enclose optional clauses from which you can choose one or none.

The following conventions are also used in this guide:

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