- Oracle Name qualification
- Oracle SQL functions
- Oracle Transaction management statements
- Oracle Using CONNECT, DISCONNECT, COMMIT, and ROLLBACK
- Oracle Performance and locking
- Oracle Non-cursor statements
- Oracle DELETE, INSERT, and UPDATE
- Oracle SELECT
- Oracle Cursor statements
- Oracle Retrieval
- Oracle Update
- Oracle Cursor support summary
- Oracle Database stored procedures
- Supported features when using Oracle stored procedures
- Using DECLARE, EXECUTE, FETCH, and CLOSE with Oracle stored procedures
- Oracle DECLARE and EXECUTE
- Oracle FETCH
- Oracle CLOSE
About this chapter
When you create scripts for a PowerBuilder application, you can use embedded SQL statements in the script to perform operations on the database. The features supported when you use embedded SQL depend on the DBMS to which your application connects.
Overview
When your PowerBuilder application connects to an Oracle database, you can use embedded SQL in your scripts.
If you are using these interfaces to connect to an Oracle database, you can embed the following types of SQL statements in scripts and user-defined functions:
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Transaction management statements
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Non-cursor statements
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Cursor statements
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Database stored procedures
When you use Oracle database interfaces, PowerBuilder supports SQL CREATE TYPE and CREATE TABLE statements for Oracle user-defined types (objects) in the ISQL view of the Database painter. It correctly handles SQL SELECT, INSERT, UPDATE, and DELETE statements for user-defined types in the Database and DataWindow painters.
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
The Oracle database interfaces use the Oracle Call Interface (OCI) to interact with the database.
When you use embedded SQL, PowerBuilder makes the required calls to the OCI. Therefore, you do not need to know anything about the OCI to use embedded SQL in PowerBuilder.
See also
Oracle Transaction management statements
