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Oracle in a Nutshell
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Oracle in a Nutshell

by Rick Greenwald, David C. Kreines
December 2002
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
928 pages
85h 29m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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Java Drivers

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.

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