December 2002
Intermediate to advanced
928 pages
85h 29m
English
Oracle supplies two types of JDBC drivers:
A JDBC Oracle Call Interface (OCI) driver, or fat driver, which is a Type 2 driver. This driver allows you to use the full capabilities of Oracle Net Services.
A JDBC thin driver, a Type 4 driver that is 100% pure Java but does not provide all the capabilities of Oracle Net Services.
Each of these types of drivers has client-side and server-side versions.
Check the Oracle documentation for your version of Oracle for a compatibility listing for these drivers, the Oracle version number, and the supported versions of the JDK and JDBC code.