Part II
OCI Object Concepts

This part of the book contains chapters that describe the use of Oracle8 objects with the OCI:

• Chapter 10, "OCI Object-Relational Programming", provides an introduction to object concepts and object-relational programming with the OCI.

• Chapter 11, "Object-Relational Datatypes", discusses object datatypes and how you can represent database objects as C structures. This chapter also describes OCI functions that map and manipulate datatypes.

• Chapter 12, "Binding and Defining in Object Applications", covers binding and defining object-relational datatypes.

• Chapter 13, "Object Cache and Object Navigation", describes the object cache and how to navigate between objects.

• Chapter 14, "Using the Object Type Translator", discusses how the OTT is used to convert database type definitions into host language representations.

  Note: The functionality described in this part of the book is only available if you have installed the Oracle8i Enterprise Edition.

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