This section describes the features of dotConnect for Oracle that are designed to support Oracle-specific data types and technologies.

• Array Binding
  

  Shows how to use array parameters, or DML arrays, to speed up inserting and updating data operations.

• BLOB and CLOB Data
  

  Shows how to work with Oracle Large Objects in dotConnect for Oracle. Large Objects, or LOBs, are huge (up to 4 Gbytes) streams of data stored in a database.

• Cursors
  

  Shows how to use Oracle cursors, the variables pointing to results sets, with dotConnect for Oracle.

The following topics contain information about support of user-defined types, including PL/SQL collections:

• PL/SQL Tables
  

  Describes how to work with PL/SQL tables.

• UDT Objects
  

  Shows main concepts of working with Oracle user-defined types.

• VARRAY Type
  

  Describes how to work with PL/SQL arrays.