When I was a developer, we wrote a very large subsystem using OCI exclusively. It requires a lot of work, but gives you the greatest possible flexibility and capability for Oracle access. For example, transparent application failover requires the use of OCI. In addition, because using OCI allows you to control every aspect of your client program's interaction with Oracle, it allows you to squeeze out every bit of performance. --- ryan.gaffuri@xxxxxxx wrote: > I have never used the OCI for anything nor have I dug into it. I was > wondering if anyone used it for anything. There is nothing specific > to the question. __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail SpamGuard - Read only the mail you want. http://antispam.yahoo.com/tools ---------------------------------------------------------------- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com ---------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe send email to: oracle-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx put 'unsubscribe' in the subject line. -- Archives are at //www.freelists.org/archives/oracle-l/ FAQ is at //www.freelists.org/help/fom-serve/cache/1.html -----------------------------------------------------------------