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3 Features of Oracle Data Provider for .NET

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

This section contains the following topics:

  • Base Classes and Provider Factory Classes

  • Code Access Security

  • Connecting to Oracle Database

  • Real Application Clusters and Global Data Services

  • Using Transaction Guard to Prevent Logical Corruption

  • OracleCommand Object

  • ODP.NET Types Overview

  • Obtaining Data from an OracleDataReader Object

  • PL/SQL REF CURSOR and OracleRefCursor

  • Implicit REF CURSOR Binding

  • LOB Support

  • ODP.NET XML Support

  • Oracle User-Defined Types (UDTs) and .NET Custom Types

  • Bulk Copy

  • Oracle Database Advanced Queuing Support

  • Continuous Query Notification Support

  • OracleDataAdapter Safe Type Mapping

  • OracleDataAdapter Requery Property

  • Guaranteeing Uniqueness in Updating DataSet to Database

  • Globalization Support

  • Debug Tracing