Designing Applications for Performance and Scalability


This white paper discussed how Oracle users cursors as the main mechanism between SQL statements in an application program and the database.  The paper discusses how cursors should be used, the concept of bind variables and how proper application design is done. 

Guidelines are included for many popular application programming interface, including OCI, ODBC, and PL/SQL.

The whitepaper is available from the Oracle Technology Network in the database white papers section.

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