OCI functionality - in general
 
 
- Relational functions
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- for managing database access and processing SQL statements
 
- Datatype mapping and manipulation functions
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- for manipulating data attributes of Oracle types
 
- Navigational functions
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- for manipulating objects retrieved from an Oracle database server
 
- External procedure functions
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- for writing server-side C callbacks from PL/SQL